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Ming Qing studies, 2014
MING QING STUDIES is an annual periodical publication dedicated primarily to advanced studies concerning Late Imperial China and the geo-cultural area of East Asia in pre-modern and modern period. This journal provides a forum for scholars from a variety of fields seeking to bridge the gap between ‘oriental’ and western studies. Contributions by young and post-graduated scholars are particularly welcome. The articles in this volume concern historical problems, crime fiction, symbols in fine arts, the history of ideas, gender and literature.
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Ming Qing Studies, 2014
CONTENTS
9 Preface by PAOLO SANTANGELO
11 Killing Di Gong: Rethinking Van Gulik’s Translation Of Late Qing Dynasty Novel Wu Zetian Si Da Qi’an.
LAVINIA BENEDETTI
43 Sage Descendants Fight: A History of the Master You Ancestral Hall in Chongming.
HE YANRAN
63 Claiming Authority in Lineage Leadership – A Fujian Case Study.
KHEE HEONG KOH
83 The Child-heart Mind: Li Zhi (1527-1602) and Intellectual Changes in Late Ming China.
LEE CHEUK YIN
97 Powerful Bonds: Male Homosocial Desire in Pu Songling’s Liaozhai  Zhiyi.
LIU FEIYING
119 Strange Stories of Judge Shi: Imagining a Manchu Investigator in Early Imperial China.
OLIVIA MILBURN
143 The Taiping Rebellion in the Letters of the Catholic Fathers in China.
FRANCESCO PARODI
181 Poetry Anthologies’ Strategy for Constructing of Literary History: A Focus on Contemporary Anthologies of the Early Qing.
WANG BING
205 The Origin, Transformation and Representation of the Double Lotus.
WANG YIZHOU
257 Leaving the ‘Boudoir’ for the Outside World: Travel and Travel Writings by Women from the Late Ming to the Late Qing Periods.
YUAN XING
277 REVIEWS
285 Frontiers of History in China
287 World Sinology 2013
The Ming Qing Studies 2014 presents essays that analyse historical, literary and iconographic materials. Two articles face the historical problems and conflicts between branches of the same linage in different areas of China. He Yanran’s “Sage Descendants Fight: A History of the Master You Ancestral Hall in Chongming” provides original materials and interprets the clash over the right to worship Master You between the local government and local clans in Chongming. Khee Heong Koh‘s “Claiming Authority in Lineage Leadership – A Fujian Case Study” concretely examines the interplay between ideas, family microhistory, social condition, and the larger historical context, in southern Fujian. Francesco Parodi’s “The Taiping Rebellion in the Letters of the Catholic Fathers in China” focuses on the Roman Catholic missionaries’ point of view in regard to the Taiping rebellion during the Taiping Tianguo years, and casts new light on the reaction of the Catholic Fathers to the Taipings. Li Zhi’s thought has been revisited by Lee Cheuk Yin in “The Child-heart Mind: Li Zhi (1527-1602) and Intellectual Changes in Late Ming China”, in the light of the recent contributions on this writer. Two other articles deal with the crime fiction, but from different perspectives: translation and evolution of the genre. In “Strange Stories of Judge Shi: Imagining a Manchu Investigator in Early Imperial China”, Olivia Milburn presents a legal case novel, the Shigong qiwen 施公奇聞 (Strange Stories of Judge Shi), which is worth of interest as it deals with a member of the Manchu ruling class protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty in spite of his crippling physical problems. In “Killing Di Gong: Rethinking Van Gulik’s Translation of Late Qing Dynasty Novel Wu Zetian Si Da Qi’an”, Lavinia Benedetti compares the Qing Dynasty Novel Wu Zetian Si Da Qi’an 武则天四大奇案 with its translation by Van Gulik and offers some useful reflections on translation problems and achievements. In “Poetry Anthologies’ Strategy in Construction of Literary History: Focused on Contemporary Anthologies of the Early Qing”, Bing Wang points out their contribution to the construction of literary history. In “A Powerful Bond: Male Homosocial Desire in Liaozhai Zhiyi”, Liu Feiying offers her interpretation on two kinds of love relations in Liaozhai Zhiyi, the homoerotic relations and the love between a man and a supernatural woman. From literary to iconographic symbols Wang Yizhou faces the question of “The Origin, Transformation and Representation of the Double Lotus” and analyses how the erotic motifs and the lotus were object of ‘rebuses’ and puns. Gender and poetry are the themes under the focus of Yuan Xing, in “Leaving the boudoir for the outside world: travel and travel writings by women from the late Ming to the late Qing periods”.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on February 16, 2015
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