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Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China de Yuanfei Wang

Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China

Autor Yuanfei Wang
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 iun 2021
In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories, and fiction of the period jointly narrate pirates and China’s Orient in maritime Asia. Wang shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the “other”: foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors. At the center of the discourses, early modern concepts of empire, race, and authenticity were intensively negotiated. Connecting late Ming literature to the global maritime world, Writing Pirates expands current discussions of Chinese diaspora and debates on Sinophone language and identity.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780472038510
ISBN-10: 0472038516
Pagini: 226
Ilustrații: 19 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press

Notă biografică

Yuanfei Wang is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Recenzii

"Writing Pirates is a thought-provoking and challenging book that makes a significant contribution to the fields of Chinese literature and history."
—Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)

“...by drawing rich connections between fiction and a wide variety of other writings, Writing Pirates casts new light on the genre and the broader “discourse of pirates” running through it. It fuses historiography and the imagination of the other, opening the door for a range of further inquiries for scholars of late Ming literature and comparative early modernities alike.”
—The Journal of Asian Studies

"Writing Pirates is a bountiful and valuable treasure for any academic library where literature and piracy are popular fields of study. . ."
—Pirates and Privateers: The History of Maritime Piracy

"Reads do not need a background in Chinese history and literature to appreciate this study. Its major contribution might be in pushing scholars more familiar with maritime violence in other seas to break out of Eurocentric frameworks for thinking about early modern maritime imaginaries and the conquest of the sea."--The Great Circle

"The discussion of a vast range of sources allows Writing Pirates to address a variety of subjects, including race and ethnicity, loyalty and Confucian values, trade and the tributary system, marginal groups, languages and translations, the private and public spheres, publishing, authenticity, emotions, and women. The author demonstrates an impressive breadth of knowledge by engaging with the scholarly literature relevant to these subjects."

Descriere

Examines writings on China’s oceanic piracy wars of the sixteenth century