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Chinese literature --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- History and criticism --- Trauma in literature --- S11/0710 --- S16/0195 --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912&delete& --- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912

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Zuoqiu, Ming. --- Zuo zhuan (Zuoqiu, Ming) --- Chun qiu Zuo zhuan (Zuoqiu, Ming) --- Zuo shi chun qiu (Zuoqiu, Ming) --- Zuo zhuan yi wen (Zuoqiu, Ming) --- Bai hua zuo zhuan (Zuoqiu, Ming) --- Zuo Zhuanquan yi (Zuoqiu, Ming) --- Tso chuan (Tso-chʻiu, Ming) --- Historiography --- Tso-chʻiu, Ming.

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"Wai-yee Li asks fundamental questions about the relationship between aesthetics and politics as categories of experience and significance by exploring the intersections of material culture, aesthetics, literature, and intellectual history in the late Ming and High Qing (late sixteenth to mid eighteenth century). While prevailing theories see the rise of aesthetic culture during this period to be connected to perceived threat to elites from a rising mercantile class, Li sees see the discourse of taste as being driven by personal and regional competition, the need to cross boundaries, and the productive tension between individuality and group identity. And she anchors this argument in readings of some of the period's most canonical texts, including Dream of the Red Chamber and the Plum Blossom Fan. Li begins in chapter 1 with an exploration of the relationship between people and things, and in defining "things," she looks at the history of aesthetic theory in China and the changing vocabulary and attitudes toward objects. In chapter two, she looks at the question of value and the interrogation of the concepts of elegance and vulgarity that occurs at this time. The fascinating literati trickster Li Yu takes center stage--just as he would like--in chapter 3, where Li takes on the distinction between the real and the fake. And in chapter 4, Li turns to the terrain she traversed so successfully in Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge, the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent nostalgia for the deposed regime. Ultimately Li argues that claims of aesthetic existence and its material basis encode or resist social change, political crisis, and personal loss"-

Material culture in literature. --- Chinese literature --- History and criticism.

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Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary, and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages in Chinese culture. The authors of the volume explore different keywords and focus on different periods and genres, ranging from philosophical and historical texts of the Warring States period (453-221 BCE) to late imperial (ca. 16th-18th centuries CE) literature and philosophy. They are guided by a similar set of questions: What elevates a mere word to the status of keyword? What sort of resonance and reverberations do we expect a keyword to have? How much does the semantic range of a keyword explain its significance? What kinds of arguments does it generate? What are the stories told to illustrate its meanings? What are political and intellectual implications of the keyword's reevaluation? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its meaning against other languages? Throughout Chinese history, new ideas and new approaches often mean reinterpreting important words; rupture, continuities, and inflection points are inseparable from the linguistic history of specific terms. The premise of this book is that taking the long view and encompassing different disciplines yield new insights and unexpected connections. The authors, who come from the fields of history, philosophy, and literature, explore keywords in different genres and illuminate their multiple dimensions in various contexts. Moreover, despite their different temporal focus, they take into consideration the development of selected keywords from the Warring States to the late imperial period, sometimes adding excurses that extend to contemporary usage.

Linguistic change --- Sociolinguistics --- China --- Chinese language --- Civilization. --- Social life and customs. --- Etymology --- History.

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Chinese literature --- History and criticism. --- S16/0155 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General anthologies --- History and criticism