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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: When true love came to China
  name:
    name part: Pan, Lynn
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cc
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 325 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love, that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word 'love' regarless of language. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. And it must be able to explain why early twentieth-century Chinese writers claimed that they had never known true love, or love by modern Western standards. By addressing these three challenges through a literary, historical, philosophical, biographical and above all comparative approach, this highly original work shows how love's profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favour of free individual choice, monogamy and a Western model of romantic love.
  table of contents: Love's entrée -- Confucius and Freud -- Love in the Western world -- Keywords -- Two great works on love -- The Camellia Lady -- Joan Haste and romantic fiction -- The clump -- Two ways of escape -- Faust, Werther, Salome -- Ellen Key -- One and only -- Looking for love: Yu Dafu -- Exalting love: Xu Zhimo -- Love betrayed: Eileen Chang -- Love's decline and fall -- Afterthoughts.
  note: Lynn Pan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Love
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, Chinese
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Social life and customs
  classification: GT2600 .P36 2015
  identifier: 9888208802
  identifier: 9789888208807
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 151023
    record change date: 20170928112917.0
    record identifier: in00003608134