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In the Name of A Love Story : = Scholar-Beauty Novels and the Writing of Genre Fiction in Qing China (1644-1911).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	In the Name of A Love Story :/
Reminder of title:	Scholar-Beauty Novels and the Writing of Genre Fiction in Qing China (1644-1911).
Author:	Li, Mengjun.
Description:	1 online resource (342 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-08A.
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27776283click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781392719763

In the Name of A Love Story : = Scholar-Beauty Novels and the Writing of Genre Fiction in Qing China (1644-1911).
Li, Mengjun.

In the Name of A Love Story :Scholar-Beauty Novels and the Writing of Genre Fiction in Qing China (1644-1911). - 1 online resource (342 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references

In the immediate aftermath of the dynastic transition in 1644, when the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) collapsed and the Manchus claimed to be the holder of Heaven's Mandate to rule the empire, a de novo novelistic genre emerged in the book market, typically grouped under the label of "scholar-beauty fiction." These novels soon ascended the best-seller list and enjoyed long-lasting popularity throughout the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Interestingly, Qing-dynasty critics as well as modern scholars have dismissed this large corpus of novels as light-hearted romance. By contrast, my dissertation seeks to address the question of the curious popularity of this genre. It proposes to view this literary phenomenon as the earliest self-conscious genre fiction in the Chinese context. As a commercially-driven genre, these novels follow a narrative formula and provide entertainment and comfort through happy fantasies of wish-fulfillment, but they also engage serious social and political concerns in explicit and indirect ways. The narrative flexibility allowed by the formula enabled the genre's ideological versatility. As such, scholar-beauty fiction served as an effective venue of self-expression and social commentary for frustrated and obscure literati writers, one that was welcomed by their peers and by other audiences.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781392719763Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
Literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Traditional Chinese fictionIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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