Screen LibraryAccidental incest, filial cannibalism, & other peculiar encounters in late imperial Chinese literature
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Published by the Harvard University Asia Center Distributed by Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 304 |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 306 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780674031562 (alk. paper) 0674031563 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I206 |
| CLC: | I206.5 |
| Call Number: | I206.5/L926 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index. The play as map of the empire -- The geography of exchange -- Reunions and dynastic fall -- Exchange across borders -- The arithmetic of filial piety -- Jinpingmei and the bounds of community -- Hongloumeng and the borders of family -- The public and the populace, or, Thoughs on genre. This work traces how political questions were addressed in late imperial Chinese fiction through extreme situations such as husbands and wives torn apart in periods of political upheaval and families so disrupted that incestuous encounters became inevitable. |