Transmutations of Desire: Literature and Religion in Late Imperial China

ISBN-13: 9789882371224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 310 str.

Qiancheng Li

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• Acknowledgements
• A Note on Abbreviations and Citations
• Prologue
• Chapter 1 Transmutations of Desire
• Qing (Desire) and Religions
• Origin of Desire: Transvaluation of Value
• The yin and yang, and the Dao
• Between xing (Nature) and qing (Feeling/Desire)
• The Ultimate Expression of qing
• The Full Course of Desire: The End of qing, or Its Transmutation
• Chapter 2 Mudan ting: The Theater of the Mind
• The Meaning of qing in Tang Xianzu
• Immateriality and the Theater of the Mind
• Indestructibility of Pleasing Forms and Desire (Seqing nanhuai)
• Pursuing the Dream: The Aftermath and Consequence
• The Self?Portrait 85
• Death and Resurrection
• Transcending qing
• Chapter 3 Between Union and Separation: Xixiang ji and the Tragic
• “Meng youchun” (Dreaming of a Spring Excursion)
• “Yingying zhuan” (Yingying’s Story)
• Xixiang ji (The Western Wing)
• Ming Commentary Traditions on Xixiang ji
• Jing Shengtan’s Recension: An Anatomy of qing
• The Tragic: Form and Vision
• The Imperfect World: Feng Menglong’s Vision of the Tragic
• Jin Shengtan’s Tragic Vision
• Chapter 4 Changsheng dian: Qing, Death, and Redemption
• Hong Sheng’s Purist Revision of the Yang Yuhuan Saga
• Qing: Between Life and Death
• From Life to Death
• Qing’s Repentance (qinghui) and the Remedy of Regrets (buhen)
• Ambiguities of qing
• Chapter 5 Taohua shan: The Inadequacy of qing and the Metaphysical Solution Revisited
• Qing and Exterior Values
• The Inadequacy of qing
• The Peach Blossom Fan
• Metaphysical Solution Revisited
• Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 6 Jiang Shiquan and Xu Xi: Justifications of qing and the Metaphysical Frame
• After Taohua shan: Jiang Shiquan on Tang Xianzu
• “Dreams” Reenacted
• Yu Ergu as the Ideal Reader and the Female Readership of Mudan ting
• Convergence of Dreams
• Metaphysical Solutions: Subject and Structure
• Xu Xi: Life, Desire, and Life?Writing— By Way of Conclusion
• Chapter 7 Honglou meng: Qing and Visions of the Tragic
• Honglou meng and the Late Ming Legacy
• The Imperfect World and the Cosmic Dimension of qing: Significance of the Nüwa Myth
• Yiyin (Lust of Mind) and chi (Folly)
• Du Liniang and Jia Baoyu, Fidelity and Promiscuity: Qing Independent of Its Objects
• Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu: The Sense of the Tragic
• Two Visions of the Tragic: The 80?Chapter and 120?Chapter Versions
• Tensions between qing and Its Opposite: The Metaphysics and Dialectics of kong, se, and qing Revisited
• Epilogue: Qing and Talents for qing Writing
• Bibliography
• Index