Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China Roddy
Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial ChinaAuthor(s): Stephen J. Roddy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804731317, 978-0804731317\nSynopsis\nThis 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 fictionRulin 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 [tel].\n\n The author cites a broad range of contemporary discursive .
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