The poetics and politics of sensuality in China : the "fragrant and bedazzling" movement (1600-1930) /
"Fragrant and bedazzling" (xiangyan) is a Chinese phrase synonymous with sensual and bewitching feminine beauty and, in literature, eroticism. Sensual literature, even to many scholars today, is morally suspect. Situated in China's recent past from the late sixteenth to the early twen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst, New York :
Cambria Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Cambria sinophone world series.
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| Summary: | "Fragrant and bedazzling" (xiangyan) is a Chinese phrase synonymous with sensual and bewitching feminine beauty and, in literature, eroticism. Sensual literature, even to many scholars today, is morally suspect. Situated in China's recent past from the late sixteenth to the early twentieth century, this study has brought to light a literary tradition and underscored intellectual trends that have been neglected, marginalized, misunderstood and even condemned. This book will be of value to scholars of literary and intellectual movements in late imperial and modern China, sexuality, gender, literary decadence, modernism, countercultures and erotic literature. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 331 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604979527 1604979526 |