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024 7 _a10.1163/9789047414841
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035 _a(OCoLC)607576077
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100 1 _aChiang, Sing-chen Lydia,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCollecting the Self :
_bBody and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China /
_cSing-chen Lydia Chiang.
246 3 _aBody and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2005.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aSinica Leidensia ;
_v67
490 1 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aChinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and other perceived "anomalies" to accepted cosmic and social norms. As such, this body of literature is a rich repository of Chinese myths, folklore, and unofficial "histories". These collections also reflect Chinese attitudes towards normalcy and strangeness, perceptions of civilization and barbarism, and fantasies about self and other. Inspired in part by Freud's theory of the uncanny, this book explores the emotive subtexts of late imperial strange tale collections to consider what these stories tell us about suppressed cultural anxieties, the construction of gender, and authorial self-identity.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aGrotesque in literature.
650 0 _aHorror tales, Chinese
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aHuman body in literature.
650 0 _aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 _aShort stories, Chinese
_xHistory and criticism.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tCollecting the Self : Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China.
_dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005
_z9789004142039
_w(DLC) 2005272401
_w(OCoLC)57388993
830 0 _aSinica Leidensia ;
_v67.
830 0 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047414841
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