Maram Epstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4776847 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maram Epstein |
| NOMBRES | Maram |
| APELLIDO | Epstein |
| FIRMA | EPSTEIN M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon USA |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Love with Chinese Characteristics
Discussions of the concept of love in Republican China have privileged romantic love and regarded the sentimental depictions of mothers by women authors as a conservative and outmoded legacy of the Confucian past. Scholarship has overlooked the discursive split between the material and spiritual formations of love throughout the modern period. Whereas Republican texts invariably depict the liberatory potential of romantic love collapsing under th…
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China, written by Matthew H. Sommer
A Companion to The Story of the Stone. A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide, written by Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-Yung
Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women's Culture
This article focuses on Zaisheng yuan as an intertextual work of creative fiction that draws from male-authored xiaoshuo fiction as well as earlier literary tanci novels. This case study discusses Zaisheng yuan as a key text in an affective archive of narrative works written by women that provides insights into how elite women mentally negotiated the social and ideological expectations that informed their lives. In addition to looking at how wome…
Filial Piety as an Emotion in Late Imperial China
The Argument for a Woman’s Authorship of the Hou Honglou meng
This article argues Hou Honglou meng ( Later Dream of the Red Chamber ; in circulation by 1796), the earliest sequel to the 120-chapter Dream of the Red Chamber , was likely written by a woman. The author of Hou Honglou meng makes the reborn Lin Daiyu the central protagonist of the novel. Over the duration of thirty chapters, Daiyu transitions from the role of daughter, to bride and daughter-in-law, and finally to mother. This pragmatic Daiyu has…
Confucian Image Politics
Transgressive Typologies
Transgressive Typologies takes a deep dive into the sources surrounding the history of female rule during the early Tang dynasty. As Rebecca Doran's layered discussion of these records makes clear, even though the Tang dynasty is recognized as one of the more tolerant eras for female autonomy in Chinese history, the writings about the figures at the center of the power struggles during Wu Zhao's 武曌 (better known to history as Wu Zetian 武則天; 624–7…
Embodied Modernities
From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive refer…
Patrimonial Bonds
Patrimonial Bonds: Daughters, Fathers, and Power in Tianyuhua1 Maram Epstein (bio) Based on its interest in filial piety and lack of mention of the Manchu invasion, I argue that the prosimetric tanci Tianyuhua (The Heavens Rain Flowers) was written closer to the earliest publication date of 1804 than the 1651 date given in the preface. Instead of reading the text as a work of Ming loyalism, I read it as a female-authored rewriting of the conventi…
Writing Emotions
This article examines the chronological biographies of the Qing ritualists Yan Yuan (1635-1704) and Li Gong (1659-1733) to witness how they negotiated and wrote about the ritual and emotional priorities in their relationships with various family members. It argues that rather than being just a form of ritual duty, filial piety was a core emotion at the center of many people's affective and spiritual lives. Although the conservative nature of nian…
True to Her Word
Competing Discourses
In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives: Marriage Bonds to Awaken the World, Dream of the Red Chamber, A Country Codger's Words of Exposure, Flowers in the Mirror, a…
Reflections of Desire
Woven into the structure of the Dream of the Red Chamber is an exploration of the self-expressive values associated with the late imperial cult of qing and an explicit warning about the self-destructive potential of desire. Rather than being rooted in biological sex, Cao Xueqin's polysemous use of gender reflects the competing visions of Confucian orthodoxy and the cult of qing. This paper analyzes the structural and ideological values associated…
Inscribing the Essentials
The figure of the man or woman urinating is a common motif in Ming-Qing fiction. In one anecdote by Yuan Mei (1716–1798), a woman goes outside one night to empty her bladder and sets in motion a chain of events that ends with her own death. In Xia Jingqu's lengthy novel (1705–1787) Yesou puyan (A country codger's words of exposure), the male protagonist urinates on a corpse and brings the dead man back to life. The stark contrast between the effe…
Engendering Order
The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P'ing Mei. Volume One
(1995). THE PLUM IN THE GOLDEN VASE, OR CHIN P'ING MEI. VOLUME ONE: TILE GATHERING. Ming Studies: Vol. 1995, No. 1, pp. 81-84
Herself an Author
Inscribing the Essentials
The figure of the man or woman urinating is a common motif in Ming-Qing fiction. In one anecdote by Yuan Mei (1716–1798), a woman goes outside one night to empty her bladder and sets in motion a chain of events that ends with her own death. In Xia Jingqu's lengthy novel (1705–1787) Yesou puyan (A country codger's words of exposure), the male protagonist urinates on a corpse and brings the dead man back to life. The stark contrast between the effe…
The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P'ing Mei. Volume One
(1995). THE PLUM IN THE GOLDEN VASE, OR CHIN P'ING MEI. VOLUME ONE: TILE GATHERING. Ming Studies: Vol. 1995, No. 1, pp. 81-84
Engendering Order
Reflections of Desire
Woven into the structure of the Dream of the Red Chamber is an exploration of the self-expressive values associated with the late imperial cult of qing and an explicit warning about the self-destructive potential of desire. Rather than being rooted in biological sex, Cao Xueqin's polysemous use of gender reflects the competing visions of Confucian orthodoxy and the cult of qing. This paper analyzes the structural and ideological values associated…
Inscribing the Essentials
The figure of the man or woman urinating is a common motif in Ming-Qing fiction. In one anecdote by Yuan Mei (1716–1798), a woman goes outside one night to empty her bladder and sets in motion a chain of events that ends with her own death. In Xia Jingqu's lengthy novel (1705–1787) Yesou puyan (A country codger's words of exposure), the male protagonist urinates on a corpse and brings the dead man back to life. The stark contrast between the effe…
Competing Discourses
In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives: Marriage Bonds to Awaken the World, Dream of the Red Chamber, A Country Codger's Words of Exposure, Flowers in the Mirror, a…
Writing Emotions
This article examines the chronological biographies of the Qing ritualists Yan Yuan (1635-1704) and Li Gong (1659-1733) to witness how they negotiated and wrote about the ritual and emotional priorities in their relationships with various family members. It argues that rather than being just a form of ritual duty, filial piety was a core emotion at the center of many people's affective and spiritual lives. Although the conservative nature of nian…
True to Her Word
Patrimonial Bonds
Patrimonial Bonds: Daughters, Fathers, and Power in Tianyuhua1 Maram Epstein (bio) Based on its interest in filial piety and lack of mention of the Manchu invasion, I argue that the prosimetric tanci Tianyuhua (The Heavens Rain Flowers) was written closer to the earliest publication date of 1804 than the 1651 date given in the preface. Instead of reading the text as a work of Ming loyalism, I read it as a female-authored rewriting of the conventi…
Embodied Modernities
From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive refer…
Confucian Image Politics
Transgressive Typologies
Transgressive Typologies takes a deep dive into the sources surrounding the history of female rule during the early Tang dynasty. As Rebecca Doran's layered discussion of these records makes clear, even though the Tang dynasty is recognized as one of the more tolerant eras for female autonomy in Chinese history, the writings about the figures at the center of the power struggles during Wu Zhao's 武曌 (better known to history as Wu Zetian 武則天; 624–7…
Filial Piety as an Emotion in Late Imperial China
The Argument for a Woman’s Authorship of the Hou Honglou meng
This article argues Hou Honglou meng ( Later Dream of the Red Chamber ; in circulation by 1796), the earliest sequel to the 120-chapter Dream of the Red Chamber , was likely written by a woman. The author of Hou Honglou meng makes the reborn Lin Daiyu the central protagonist of the novel. Over the duration of thirty chapters, Daiyu transitions from the role of daughter, to bride and daughter-in-law, and finally to mother. This pragmatic Daiyu has…
A Companion to The Story of the Stone. A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide, written by Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-Yung
Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women's Culture
This article focuses on Zaisheng yuan as an intertextual work of creative fiction that draws from male-authored xiaoshuo fiction as well as earlier literary tanci novels. This case study discusses Zaisheng yuan as a key text in an affective archive of narrative works written by women that provides insights into how elite women mentally negotiated the social and ideological expectations that informed their lives. In addition to looking at how wome…
Herself an Author
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China, written by Matthew H. Sommer
Love with Chinese Characteristics
Discussions of the concept of love in Republican China have privileged romantic love and regarded the sentimental depictions of mothers by women authors as a conservative and outmoded legacy of the Confucian past. Scholarship has overlooked the discursive split between the material and spiritual formations of love throughout the modern period. Whereas Republican texts invariably depict the liberatory potential of romantic love collapsing under th…
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