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Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China

Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China

Roddy, Stephen J.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismChinese History

ISBN10: 0804731314
ISBN13: 9780804731317
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 1998
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book is a study of the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. The author examines three works of vernacular fiction--Rulin waishi (ca. 1750), Yesou puyan (ca. 1780), and Jinghua yuan (1821/1828)--for their articulation of new perceptions of the literati, or Confucian scholar-gentry. He places the reevaluation of literati roles and privilege found in these novels within the context of scholarly and cultural developments, notably the ascendance of the philological or evidential studies movement of the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods (1736-1820).

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