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Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-century Chinese Novel, Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan-marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World

Last Updated on 2020/09/22

Traditionally, scholars of Chinese literature have viewed Wu Jingzi’s The Scholars (ca. 1750) as the first satiric novel of Chinese literature.

Yenna Wu (Chinese literature, U. of California, Riverside) counters that it was preceded by such works as Xi Zhou Sheng’s Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World (ca.1661). After arguing for the broadening of the parameters of the definition of the satiric novel and the inclusion of a number of novels previously excluded from the category, Wu devotes the bulk of the work to the presentation of Marriage as Retribution as a significant example of the satiric and examines Sheng’s strategies and goals in the novel’s composition.

Topics: The Scholars,Wu Jingzi,Chinese novel,Chinese classic,Qing Dynasty,Chinese literature,The Unofficial History of the Forest of the Literati,Confucius,confucianism,Yenna Wu,Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World,Xi Zhou

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