Title Orthodox passions : narrating filial love during the High Qing / Maram Epstein

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2019] Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : illustrations Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 425. Contents Introduction: Taking filial love seriously -- Filial love: 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 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"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed December 4, 2019) Subject Filial piety -- China -- History Filial piety in literature. Chinese literature -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese. Chinese literature. Filial piety. Filial piety in literature. Qing Dynasty (China) SUBJECT China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Sources Subject China. Genre/Form Electronic books History. Sources. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781684176069 1684176069

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