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   Aug 1, 2020 · While these accounts are mediated through the voices of male writers, they are often the only records we have of the intimate lives of women who otherwise would have largely been lost to history. 2 This is why we should welcome the recent publication of The Romance of a Literatus and His Concubine in Seventeenth-Century China, a meticulously ...

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   Apr 15, 2019 · The Romance of a Literatus and his Concubine in Seventeenth-century China is an annotated translation of Reminiscences of the Plum-shaded Convent (Yingmeian Yiyu 影梅庵憶語), written by China’s prominent essayist and poet Mao Xiang冒襄 (1611-1693) in memory of his concubine Dong Xiaowan 董小宛 (1624-1651).

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   This brief work, first published in the 1650s, narrates the courtship and marriage of Mao Xiang and the famed courtesan Dong Xiaowan 董小宛 (1624–51) from 1639 to 1651, during the tumultuous years of transition between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

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   The Romance of a Literatus and His Concubine in Seventeenth-Century China. Translated and annotated by Jun Fang and Lifang He. Hong Kong: Proverse Hong Kong, 2019. 224 pp. ISBN: 9789888491629 (paper). | The Journal of Asian Studies | Cambridge Core.

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   Jan 19, 2018 · If she had married a literatus, she might have been cured: “With no one to know her intimately, sadness and regret followed her to the end” (qtd. in Zhu 2008, p. 1). Sun Zhouzhai’s postface, too, emphasized the lack of a literati husband as the diagnosis of Zhu Shuzhen’s despondency.

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   The Miles Literatus in 12th- and 13th-Century England 93I Nothing prevented those who actually took minor orders from later choosing a secular occupation and living a secular life, even marrying.

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   Did a literatus recite a woman's poetry?

   • In one exception, a literatus claimed to have heard a woman’s poems recited in an inn near the capitol, after which he collected them and wrote a preface. In each case, these literati inscriptions made aesthetic judgments about the corpus of a woman’s poetry and located the aesthetics in the woman’s gender.

   Bodies of work: song dynasty prefaces to women’s poetry as gender

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   What if Zhu Shuzhen had married a literatus?

   • If she had married a literatus, she might have been cured: “With no one to know her intimately, sadness and regret followed her to the end” (qtd. in Zhu 2008, p. 1). Sun Zhouzhai’s postface, too, emphasized the lack of a literati husband as the diagnosis of Zhu Shuzhen’s despondency. Literati providence was the prescription.

   Bodies of work: song dynasty prefaces to women’s poetry as gender

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   What is the difference between Qing literatus and courtesan poetry?

   • Modern literary scholars have argued that Qing literatus and courtesan poems from that time place less emphasis on love, talent, glamour, or nostalgia, and more on the sufferings of courtesans from sexual exploitation, bondage, and shame. In the nineteenth century, the “vulgarization” of courtesan culture had become a fact.

   Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming

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   Can a musician be married as a wife or concubine?

   • See The Great Ming Code: Da Ming lü, transl. by Jiang Yonglin (Seattle, WA, 2005), p. 87, Art. 119, “Marrying Musicians as Wives or Concubines”, where is written: “In all cases where officials or functionaries marry musicians as wives or concubines, they shall be punished by 60 strokes of beating with the heavy stick”.

   Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming

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   What is Song literati's hermeneutical approach to women's poetry?

   • This paper examines Song literati’s hermeneutical approach to women’s poetry, making two primary claims: first, that these hermeneutic practices (methods of interpretation) formed part of a Song discourse on gender, and second, that these hermeneutics were “metonymic,” in that they functioned by contextualizing women’s bodies through contiguity.

   Bodies of work: song dynasty prefaces to women’s poetry as gender

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   Why did a literatus write a preface?

   • Most were, as Xu notes, penned as favors for friends in the social elite whose female relatives had produced a collection of poetry. In one exception, a literatus claimed to have heard a woman’s poems recited in an inn near the capitol, after which he collected them and wrote a preface.

   Bodies of work: song dynasty prefaces to women’s poetry as gender

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   Late Ming literatus–courtesan couples had a romantic idea that not only were they destined to marry each other but also that their life together would constitute an exemplary “wonderful tale that will last for a thousand autumns”.