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.
Tina Lu is Professor of Chinese Literature at Yale University.
Jade Horse and the Historical and Cultural Implication of “Journey to Annam”---Concerning the other critical elements and descriptions in the story “Journey to Annam” is the third story in Zhaoshibei, written by the Master of Zhuoxuan Pavilion酌玄...
评分Jade Horse and the Historical and Cultural Implication of “Journey to Annam”---Concerning the other critical elements and descriptions in the story “Journey to Annam” is the third story in Zhaoshibei, written by the Master of Zhuoxuan Pavilion酌玄...
评分Jade Horse and the Historical and Cultural Implication of “Journey to Annam”---Concerning the other critical elements and descriptions in the story “Journey to Annam” is the third story in Zhaoshibei, written by the Master of Zhuoxuan Pavilion酌玄...
评分Jade Horse and the Historical and Cultural Implication of “Journey to Annam”---Concerning the other critical elements and descriptions in the story “Journey to Annam” is the third story in Zhaoshibei, written by the Master of Zhuoxuan Pavilion酌玄...
评分Jade Horse and the Historical and Cultural Implication of “Journey to Annam”---Concerning the other critical elements and descriptions in the story “Journey to Annam” is the third story in Zhaoshibei, written by the Master of Zhuoxuan Pavilion酌玄...
这本书的行文风格极其讲究,充满了古典文学研究的严谨性,但又不失流畅的叙事节奏,这在处理如此敏感的题材时,无疑是一项高难度的平衡艺术。作者的语言驾驭能力令人赞叹,那些引用的原文往往是文言文,但其后的解读却能做到深入浅出,让非专业读者也能领会其深层意涵。我特别留意了关于家族权力结构变化那几个章节,作者巧妙地将社会学理论与文本细读相结合,论证了在王朝衰微之际,传统家庭伦理是如何在内部被腐蚀和解构的。那种层层剥开表象、直抵文化肌理的剖析,让人读来拍案叫绝。它不是在猎奇,而是在进行一场严肃的文化考古,试图重建一个被历史尘埃掩盖的、充满矛盾与挣扎的个体心灵图景。这种学术上的深度和对文本的尊重,让这本书的价值远远超出了其引人注目的书名本身。
评分这本书的封面设计实在令人过目难忘,那种深沉的墨绿色调配上烫金的标题,散发出一种古典与禁忌交织的独特魅力。我是在一家旧书店的角落里偶然发现它的,当时就被这种大胆而又充满学术气息的命名方式所吸引。它不像市面上那些通俗的文学作品,反而更像是一部深度挖掘特定历史时期文化心理的专著。我尤其欣赏作者在引言中那种毫不退缩的学术态度,直面那些在传统研究中常常被规避或轻描淡写的主题。阅读过程中,我仿佛被拉回到那个充满压抑与反叛暗流涌动的晚清民初社会,作者对文献的梳理细致入微,那些被忽视的笔记、戏文乃至民间故事,都被赋予了新的生命和解读维度。整个阅读体验是震撼的,它迫使我重新审视“礼教”与“人性”在那个时代背景下的复杂张力,绝非简单的二元对立。那种通过看似边缘的文本来窥见时代核心焦虑的叙事手法,高明至极。
评分这本书的阅读过程是缓慢而富有回味的,它不适合快速浏览,而是需要反复咀嚼那些精妙的论证和大胆的文本解读。作者对于材料的引用达到了近乎偏执的程度,每一个论断背后都有坚实的文献支撑,这极大地增强了其论点的可信度,即使面对如此具有争议性的主题,也能保持住学术的庄重性。我尤其欣赏作者在论述中展现出的那种跨学科的视野,将文学批评、社会史和人类学观察熔于一炉,构建了一个多层次的解读体系。它成功地将那些在传统史学中被视为“秽闻”或“荒诞不经”的叙事,提升到了探讨社会结构与个体自由边界的严肃议题层面。读完后,我感觉自己对晚清文学的理解深度又增加了一个维度,那种对人性幽暗面和文化复杂性的坦诚直面,是极具价值的。
评分作为一名长期关注中国叙事传统变迁的爱好者,我必须说,这本书提供了一个极其新颖的切入点来讨论“边缘叙事”的社会功能。它没有停留在对这些禁忌主题的简单罗列,而是将其置于晚清社会剧烈转型的大背景下去考察其产生的文化土壤和接受机制。作者在分析小说和地方志时,那种敏锐的洞察力,总能捕捉到字里行间隐藏的社会潜意识。比如,书中对某些地方戏曲中角色互换和身份模糊现象的探讨,简直是神来之笔,揭示了在礼教高压下,人们如何通过艺术的“安全阀”来释放被压抑的欲望和对既有秩序的质疑。这本书的贡献在于,它挑战了我们对“主流文学”的刻板印象,证明了那些被边缘化的叙事,往往才是理解特定历史时期集体心态最真实的密码钥匙。阅读完毕后,我对中国古典小说的研究范式产生了一种焕然一新的认识。
评分从装帧和排版来看,这本书明显是面向严肃读者的,字体选择、页边距的设置,都体现了一种对学术阅读体验的尊重。但真正让我沉浸其中的,是作者对文本材料的筛选和论证逻辑的构建。这本书的结构非常扎实,每一章都像是一个精心搭建的逻辑迷宫,引导读者逐步深入到作者所构建的论点核心。我特别欣赏作者对“离奇故事”的分类学处理,这使得原本零散的民间传说和私人笔记有了一个清晰的理论框架可以依附。这不仅仅是一本关于文学作品的书,更像是一份社会心理学的田野报告,通过文学的棱镜折射出特定时代下,个体在面对巨大伦理困境时的精神状态。它提供的不仅仅是信息,更是一种看待历史的全新视角和方法论上的启发。
评分抓不住thesis,最怕读这种文学史
评分Great perspective, also quite fragmentary. What she wants to address is how personal experience can be related to a larger society/empire, be it dynastic transition or certain local features. The Epilogue should be a chapter, and it looks so weird to draw maps in the writing (fake presentation anyway), in my view...
评分被我导吐槽得emmm……连我都看得出来文本欠缺逻辑性,很破碎。据说是在作者养着四个小孩的情况下抽空写的。
评分scattered writing...
评分被我导吐槽得emmm……连我都看得出来文本欠缺逻辑性,很破碎。据说是在作者养着四个小孩的情况下抽空写的。
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