Elective Affinities. Literary Soul Mates and the Marketplace in late Qing Fiction

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-91
Author(s):  
Paola. Zamperini
Keyword(s):  
Late Qing ◽  
Elective Affinities ◽  
Late Qing Fiction

scholarly journals UTOPIA/WUTUOBANG AS A TRAVELLING MARKER OF TIME

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
LORENZO ANDOLFATTO
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Late Qing Fiction ◽  
The One ◽  
Li Ruzhen

Abstract This article argues for the understanding of ‘utopia’ as a cultural marker whose appearance in history is functional to the a posteriori chronologization (or typification) of historical time. I develop this argument via a comparative analysis of utopia between China and Europe. Utopia is a marker of modernity: the coinage of the word wutuobang (‘utopia’) in Chinese around 1895 is analogous and complementary to More's invention of Utopia in 1516, in that both represent attempts at the conceptualizations of displaced imaginaries, encounters with radical forms of otherness – the European ‘discovery’ of the ‘New World’ during the Renaissance on the one hand, and early modern China's own ‘Westphalian’ refashioning on the other. In fact, a steady stream of utopian conjecturing seems to mark the latter: from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom borne out of the Opium wars, via the utopian tendencies of late Qing fiction in the works of literati such as Li Ruzhen, Biheguan Zhuren, Lu Shi'e, Wu Jianren, Xiaoran Yusheng, and Xu Zhiyan, to the reformer Kang Youwei's monumental treatise Datong shu. Altogether, these sketches of utopia provide an imaginary counterpoint to the co-produced regimes of historicity whose genealogies are being traced in this issue.

Fin-de-Siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911

1999 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
C. D. Alison Bailey ◽  
David Der-wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Qing Fiction

scholarly journals Opium and Sexuality in late Qing Fiction

NAN Nü ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-179
Author(s):  
Keith McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Female Smoker ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opium Addiction ◽  
Late Qing Fiction

AbstractThis article examines opium smoking in two gendered contexts of the late Qing, as an activity among socializing men and in situations between men and women. The method is to use fiction to ask how male and female smokers differed and in general to show how opium came to symbolize an uncanny and ominous disruption of the social fabric. In terms of gender, the obscene enjoyment of the female smoker was exponentially more threatening in the prohibitionist's eyes than that of the male. As the sign of an unprecedented type of pleasure, opium addiction threatened to denaturalize the boundaries of cultural as well as gender identity.

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