Hsien-Chi Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 9115430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hsien-Chi Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hsien-Chi |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Corpses on Display
This paper explores the literary representation of torture in four seventeenth-century vernacular short novels concerned with the conflict between the Donglin faction and eunuch Wei Zhongxian and the broader context of the fall of the Ming. These works neither condemn nor query the use of judicial violence, but rather inform their readers that such violence is bound up with political power, and is immoral only when the agent of violence is not en…
Through the Prism of Male Writing
Representation of lesbian relations in Ming-Qing vernacular literature is foremost a male discourse. A close look into this discourse will help gauge the contemporary social stance, especially the male stance, towards lesbianism. This paper examines textual strategies and the narrative norm of portraying lesbian love and sex in twelve Ming-Qing texts. The normative pattern extracted from these texts suggests a consensus in the male position that …
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Through the Prism of Male Writing
Representation of lesbian relations in Ming-Qing vernacular literature is foremost a male discourse. A close look into this discourse will help gauge the contemporary social stance, especially the male stance, towards lesbianism. This paper examines textual strategies and the narrative norm of portraying lesbian love and sex in twelve Ming-Qing texts. The normative pattern extracted from these texts suggests a consensus in the male position that …
Corpses on Display
This paper explores the literary representation of torture in four seventeenth-century vernacular short novels concerned with the conflict between the Donglin faction and eunuch Wei Zhongxian and the broader context of the fall of the Ming. These works neither condemn nor query the use of judicial violence, but rather inform their readers that such violence is bound up with political power, and is immoral only when the agent of violence is not en…
Art (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Vernacular (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works)