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100 1 $aLu, Tina.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00051894
245 10 $aAccidental incest, filial cannibalism, & other peculiar encounters in late imperial Chinese literature /$cTina Lu.
246 18 $aAccidental incest, filial cannibalism, and other peculiar encounters in late imperial Chinese literature
260 $aCambridge, Mass :$bPublished by the Harvard University Asia Center :$bDistributed by Harvard University Press,$c2008.
300 $aviii, 306 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aHarvard East Asian monographs ;$v304
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Play as Map of the Empire -- $g2.$tThe Geography of Exchange -- $g3.$tReunions and Dynastic Fall -- $g4.$tExchange Across Borders -- $g5.$tThe Arithmetic of Filial Piety -- $g6.$tJinpingmei and the Bounds of Community -- $g7.$tHongloumeng and the Borders of Family -- $tEpilogue: The Public and the Populace, or Thoughts on Genre -- $tReference Matter -- $tCharacter List.
520 1 $a"Described as "all under Heaven," the Chinese empire might have extended infinitely, covering all worlds and cultures. That ideology might have been convenient for the state, but what did late imperial people really think about the scope and limits of the human community?" "Writers of late imperial fiction and drama were, the author argues, deeply engaged with questions about the nature of the Chinese empire and of the human community. Fiction and drama repeatedly pose questions concerning relations both among people and between people and their possessions: What ties individuals together, whether permanently or temporarily? When can ownership be transferred, and when does an object define its owner? What transforms individual families or couples into a society? Tina Lu traces how these political questions were addressed in fiction through extreme situations: husbands and wives torn apart in periods of political upheaval, families so disrupted that incestuous encounters become inevitable, times so desperate that people have to sell themselves to be eaten."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aChinese literature$yQing dynasty, 1644-1912$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100547
650 0 $aSocial conflict in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123928
830 0 $aHarvard East Asian monographs ;$v304.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42012381
852 00 $beal$hPL2297$i.L76 2008