<p>In Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from, the orally performed version also called tanci). She explores the tradition through a comparative analysis of five seminal texts. Guo argues that Chinese women writers of the period position the personal within the diegesis in order to reconfigure their moral commitments and personal desires. By fashioning a “feminine” representation of subjectivity, tanci writers found a habitable space of self-expression in the male-dominated literary tradition.Through her discussion of the emergence, evolution, and impact of women’s tanci, Guo shows how historical forces acting on the formation of the genre serve as the background for an investigation of cross-dressing, self-portraiture, and authorial self-representation. Further, Guo approaches anew the concept of “woman-oriented perspective” and argues that this perspective conceptualizes a narrative framework in which the heroine (s) are endowed with mobility to exercise their talent and power as social beings as men’s equals. Such a woman-oriented perspective redefines normalized gender roles with an eye to exposing women’s potentialities to transform historical and social customs in order to engender a world with better prospects for women.“This work will be a significant contribution to scholarship. Chinese women’s tanci novels in late imperial Qing and early twentieth-century China are numerous in collections; however, their scholarly studies are still insufficient. This book covers some understudied tanci texts and sheds new insights in the studied area. It also brings in association study with other Chinese writing genres during the late Qing period, as well as comparative perspective within the world culture when possible.” Qingyun Wu, California State University, Los Angeles</p>

Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China (Comparative Cultural Studies)

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Guo, Li

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<p>Review\n"From an intercultural, intersectional perspective, Li Guo delves into the construction of strategies utilized by female characters to advance their positions and authority, and outlines how mock marriages between women problematize ?the sexual contract under polygamy.' This well-researched work focuses on five worthy but understudied tanci narratives that will resonate with global audiences. Building on the author's earlier writings about the genre, Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction significantly advances the field of vernacular Chinese literature, Chinese women's literature, and tanci studies to new and welcome levels." —Mark Bender, The Ohio State University\n"Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction takes the reader on an absorbing journey through five tancinovels compiled in the course of China's war-ridden nineteenth century—two of which are presented here for the first time in English. Li Guo provides a compelling treatment of the multifarious valence and seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity with which these tanci authors deploy the archetypal motif of female cross-dressing (with all the complicated gender reversals, sociofamilial reconfigurations, and homoerotic scenarios it induces), the capacious reinvention of modes of female exemplarity, and the authorial articulations of the suffering and loss caused by the civil war." —Maria Franca Sibau, author of Reading for the Moral: Exemplarity and the Confucian Moral Imagination in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Short Fiction\n"Building on her seminal first book and focusing on five understudied nineteenth-century tanci, Guo takes readers deep into the imaginary social space that women tanci writers created. She skillfully guides readers though elaborate plots with theoretical insight and broad contextualization, showing along the way the complex interplays of Confucian gender virtues and norms, and changing ideas about female talent, desire, and aspiration. Filled with stimulating analysis, the book is a significant addition to the scholarship on early modern gender studies in China and beyond." —Weijing Lu, author of True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China\n"Using a comparative perspective, Guo deftly creates stimulating conversations between Chinese tanci fiction writing and the rich scholarship on Western vernacular literacy. Guo's interdisciplinary approach contributes to studies of the non-Western vernacular tradition as well as women and gender in China. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." — CHOICE\n"With thorough archival research, Guo?s monograph enriches current understanding of female tanci writers, their life experiences, and their literary networks. This monograph inspires more exciting research on the genre of tanci fiction, and a full vision of women?s literature and early modern Chinese literature will eventually challenge the conventional concept of literary canon." —Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature\nWomen’s tanci, or “plucking rhymes,” are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864), as well as their depictions of warfare and social unrest.\nWomen tanci authors’ redefinition of female exemplarity within the Confucian orthodox discourses of virtue, talent, chastity, and political integrity could be bourgeoning expressions of female exceptionalism and could have foreshadowed protofeminist ideals of heroism. They establish a realistic tenor in affirming feminine domestic authority, and open up spaces for discussions of “womanly becoming,” female exceptionalism, and shifting family power structures. The verna</p>

Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction (Comparative Cultural Studies)

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