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The Way of Darkness and Light: Daoist Divine Women in Pre-Modern Chinese Fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Way of Darkness and Light: Daoist Divine Women in Pre-Modern Chinese Fiction./
Author:	Liu, Peng.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	221 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-10A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10743473
ISBN:	9780355660395

The Way of Darkness and Light: Daoist Divine Women in Pre-Modern Chinese Fiction.
Liu, Peng.

The Way of Darkness and Light: Daoist Divine Women in Pre-Modern Chinese Fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 221 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2018.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

A mysterious goddess magically generates a swirling wind to conceal the body of a hero. A licentious flower deity seduces a male to experiment with forty-three postures of copulation in a picturesque garden. Such graphic details of late imperial Chinese fiction exhibit two types of power from women: their martial prowess and seductiveness. This dissertation brings these two types of female power together by focusing on the Mysterious Woman (Xuannu) and the Immaculate Woman (Sunu), two Daoist goddesses who figure prominently in martial arts and erotic stories, respectively. I argue that after being marginalized by institutionalized Daoism, these goddesses played a pivotal role in framing two different, though occasionally interrelated, types of novels. One type of novel concerns war and public affairs, including dynastic crises; the other type concerns domestic life, as exemplified in erotic fiction. The metaphor that equates sex with war relates these two types of stories. I consider these fictional texts to be powerful agents that reused and reinterpreted the goddesses' stories in late imperial China. I also situate these texts in the cultural network within which they constructed or reconstructed the goddesses' images in collaboration with Daoist discourse. In this research, I also examine how femininity (yin) is constructed in late imperial Chinese fiction. As I argue, the ideas of invisibility (yin) and licentiousness (yin) constitute the notion of femininity. The Mysterious Woman demonstrates the power of invisibility when being portrayed as a goddess of war and associated with Daoist magic, such as the magic of invisibility (yinshen shu). The Immaculate Woman represents the idea of licentiousness as she appears in various forms to seduce male protagonists. The dissertation contains two sections. The first part focuses on the following fictional texts: Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan), Quelling the Demons' Revolt (San Sui pingyao zhuan), Bull's Head Mountain (Niutou shan), and Unofficial History of Female Immortals (Nuxian waishi). In this part, I show how the Mysterious Woman is depicted as a war goddess and a moral agent in stories concerning war, rebellion, and dynastic crises. The second part of the dissertation discusses Su'e pian (The Story of Su'e), Zhulin Yeshi (Unofficial History of the Forest), Yesou puyan (Humble Words of A Rustic Elder), and Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber). These works create various literary reincarnations of the Immaculate Woman. These reincarnations guide male protagonists to their spiritual awakenings by means of sex. While drawing on fictional and Daoist texts to rebuild the history of the Mysterious Woman and the Immaculate Woman, this research illuminates a complex relationship between Chinese fiction and Daoism.

ISBN: 9780355660395Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.

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