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Orthodox passions : narrating filial love during the High Qing

Title
Orthodox passions : narrating filial love during the High Qing / Maram Epstein.
Author
Epstein, Maram
Publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, [2019]

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Description
xii, 361 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Analyzes filial narratives from a wide range of primary texts from late Imperial China, including local gazetteers, biographical records, and fiction, to identify filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing texts and show the diversity of acts that constituted exemplary filial piety"--
Series Statement
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425
Uniform Title
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Taking filial love seriously -- Toward a new paradigm of emotions -- Changing constructions of filial virtue in local gazetteers -- Filial piety and the empowering of daughters during the Qing -- Rereading the sentimental world of Story of the Stone -- Rethinking interiority: mourning rites and the construction of the affective and ethical self in auto/biographical writings.
Call Number
JFE 20-3313
ISBN
  • 9780674241176
  • 0674241177
LCCN
  • 2018057859
  • 40029643944
OCLC
1089258337
Author
Epstein, Maram, author.
Title
Orthodox passions : narrating filial love during the High Qing / Maram Epstein.
Publisher
Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, [2019]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1644-1912
Other Standard Identifier
40029643944
Research Call Number
JFE 20-3313
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