TY  - BOOK
AU  - Starr,Chloë F.
TI  - Red-light novels of the late Qing
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2007
SN  - 9789047428596
AV  - PL2437 .S72 2007
U1  - 895.134809 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Leiden, Biggleswade
PB  - Brill, Extenza Turpin [distributor]
KW  - Chinese fiction
KW  - Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Courtesans in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-285) and index; Preliminary Material; C.F. Starr --; Chapter One. Text And Context; C.F. Starr --; Chapter Two. The Narrator Framed; C.F. Starr --; Chapter Three. Characterisation In Context; C.F. Starr --; Chapter Four. Structure: The Textual Representation Of Itself; C.F. Starr --; Bibliography; C.F. Starr --; Index; C.F. Starr; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Chinese literature has traditionally been divided by both theorists and university course providers into ‘classical’ and ‘modern.’ This has left nineteenth-century fiction in limbo, and allowed negative assessments of its quality to persist unchecked. The popularity of Qing dynasty red-light fiction – works whose primary focus is the relationship between clients and courtesans, set in tea-houses, pleasure gardens, and later, brothels – has endured throughout the twentieth century. This volume explores why, arguing that these novels are far from the ‘low’ work of ‘frustrated scholars’ but in their provocative play on the nature of relations between client, courtesan and text, provide an insight into wider changes in understandings of self and literary value in the nineteenth century
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004156296.i-293
ER  -