Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
by
Tina Lu
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
ISBN-10
0674031563
ISBN-13
9780674031562
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Imprint
Harvard University, Asia Center
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 2009
Print length
306 Pages
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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This book traces how questions about the nature of the Chinese empire and of the human community were addressed in fiction through extreme situations: husbands and wives torn apart in periods of upheaval, families so disrupted that incestuous encounters become inevitable, times so desperate that people must sell themselves to be eaten.
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