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Transforming Gender and Emotion

Year: 2017

Type: book

Abstract: Often called China's "Romeo and Juliet", the story of the Butterfly Lovers (the tale of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, or the Liang-Zhu story) is one of the most famous folk stories in traditional China. With its origins dating back to the fourth century, it has spread and evolved across genres, country, religion, and culture. Transforming Gender and Emotion examines how this story has successfully traveled and multiplied over the centuries, and elucidates what this phenomenon tells us about the story, the local peoples and cultures it represents and the cultural-literary relationship between China and Korea in premodern times. In particular, the book aims to examine the transmission and survivability of its transgressive elements, challenging social, gender, and emotional norms

Source: University of Michigan Press eBooks

DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9717284

Author: Sookja Cho

Institutions: Seoul National University, Washington University in St. Louis

Language: English

Topic: Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Princeton University, Arizona State University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Hawai'i, Temple University, Hong Kong Baptist University

OpenAlex ID: W4239873523

FWCI: 0.788

Cites: 230

Cited by: 8

Related to: 10