Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading Of Humor In Feng Menglong's Child's Folly
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Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly
About the AuthorPi-ching Hsu is Associate Professor in the Department of History at San Francisco State University. Professor Hsu has published several journal articles, written several book reviews, and served as a peer reviewer of article / book manuscripts. Professor Hsu received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota.Beyond Eroticism translates and analyzes over forty songs and ninety jokes from Child's Folly, a trilogy of popular songs (Hanging Twigs), folksongs (Hill Songs), and jokes (Treasury of Laughs) compiled by Feng Menglong (1574-1646), a giant in late Ming (1368-1644) popular literature. Focusing on humor as the predominant characteristic of the "tactically forgotten" collections, the book offers a delightful study of the foibles, eccentricities, and anxieties of a broad cross section of late Ming society. The study also probes the inner world of the compiler as he reveals, unwittingly, the tensions in his own gender and class conceptions. Eroticism was Feng Menglong's trademark, but Hsu looks beyond that trademark, arguing that Feng used eroticism both to sell his books and to satirize the puritan state's orthodoxy and the "loose" love ethics of the masses. He did the former as a canny author of the commercial press, and the latter as a marginal member of the "gentry society"-social elite who formed "public opinions" through employment of their cultural capital. An intellectual of high self-esteem, Feng Menglong took advantage of the transgressive nature of humor to project his social, cultural, and political criticism into his erotic, as well as non-erotic satire.
Specification of Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly
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Author | Hsu, Pi-Ching |
Binding | paperback |
Language | english |
ISBN-10 | 761833536 |
ISBN-13 | 9780761833536 |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Publication Year | 01-12-2005 |
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