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Silk and Sacrifice: Gender, Death, and Adaptation in Two Chinese Literary Traditions.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Silk and Sacrifice: Gender, Death, and Adaptation in Two Chinese Literary Traditions./
Author:	Wang-Wolf, Xuan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	237 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-11A.
Subject:	Asian studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28492731
ISBN:	9798738619984

Silk and Sacrifice: Gender, Death, and Adaptation in Two Chinese Literary Traditions.
Wang-Wolf, Xuan.

Silk and Sacrifice: Gender, Death, and Adaptation in Two Chinese Literary Traditions. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 237 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation explores the relationship between expressions of female virtue-predominantly chastity-and violence within two popular early Chinese literary traditions: Qiu Hu 秋胡 and Han Peng 韓朋. Both tales were in circulation by the Western Han (206 BCE-24 CE) and depict husbands and wives torn apart by conflict-the victims of drama instigated by men-and ultimately end with the righteous suicides of their female leads. Testifying to their enduring popularity, these stories were adapted by poets and prose writers alike, including prominent figures such as Fu Xuan, Yan Yanzhi, Li Shangyin, and Shi Junbao, as well as unknown composers of works discovered at Dunhuang. The results of their labor-poems, prose, and even a Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) stage adaptation-demonstrate the flexibility of these traditions as a means of exploring contemporary concerns regarding female integrity and talent, the dangers of beauty, women's roles in the family, as well as socio-economic issues. By providing the first study of the portrayal of women within these influential traditions across genre and time, this dissertation not only contributes to the understanding of both tales as elite representations of idealized femininity, but also highlights how such popular traditions were subject to competing pressures of social norms, genre, and audience expectation. By examining and contrasting these disparate works, this study argues that these traditions were less singular tales that owed their existence to any given work than they were a broad collection of topoi that could be shuffled into differing configurations to meet the need of a given author at a given moment.

ISBN: 9798738619984Subjects--Topical Terms:

1571829
Asian studies.
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Chinese literature

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