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"What Confucius Wouldn't Talk About": the Fantastic Mode of the Chinese Classical Tale

Sing-chen Lydia Francis

出版	Stanford University, 1997
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=va9EAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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Excerpt from Abstract (leaf iv): My study will bypass the problem of historicity vs. fictionality, and define the Chinese fantastic as any conscious or subconscious departure-- be it epistemological, ethical, political, or aesthetic-- from the orthodox Confucian perception of reality and literary propriety. In other words, the Chinese strange tale as a literary category demarcated for both the writer and the reader a safety zone within which the dominant cultural values might be toyed with, temporarily suspended, or even subverted. In order that the examples might interilluminate, they will be drawn primarily from the high Qing (Kangxi r. 1661-Qianlong r. 1796) revival of the medieval strange tale ...