TY - BOOK AU - Guo,Li ED - Project Muse. TI - Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China / T2 - Comparative cultural studies SN - 9781612493824 PY - 2015///] CY - West Lafayette, Indiana PB - Purdue University Press KW - Tanci KW - gnd KW - Frauenroman KW - Women in literature KW - fast KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Chinese fiction KW - Women authors KW - Narration KW - Femmes dans la litterature KW - History and criticism KW - China KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Envisioning a nascent feminine agency in Zaishengyuan (Destiny of rebirth) -- Disguised scholar, fox spirit, and moralism in Bishenghua (Blossom from the bush) -- Ethics, filial piety, and narrative sympathy in Mengyingyuan (Dream, image, destiny) -- Gender, spectatorship, and literary portraiture in Mengyingyuan -- Cross-dressing as a collective act in Xianü qunying shi (A history of women warriors) -- Illustrating a new woman in Fengliu zuiren (The valiant and the culprit) -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Chinese characters for authors' names, terms and titles of works; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42550/ ER -