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The Dragons of the Taiping Guangji : = A Queer Ecocritical Approach.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Dragons of the Taiping Guangji :/
Reminder of title:	A Queer Ecocritical Approach.
Author:	Stork, Josiah J.
Description:	1 online resource (239 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-08B.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
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ISBN:	9798368466095

The Dragons of the Taiping Guangji : = A Queer Ecocritical Approach.
Stork, Josiah J.

The Dragons of the Taiping Guangji :A Queer Ecocritical Approach. - 1 online resource (239 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

The Tàipíng Guǎngjì 太平廣記 (Extensive Records of the Tàipíng [Xīngguó] Reign Era) is a large anthology of strange short stories compiled in 978 CE. The compilers and editors divided the tales into over 100 sections by theme. While there has been extensive scholarship on a small percentage of the over 7,000 tales contained within, previous scholars have largely focused on just the best known tales. This dissertation specifically looks at the themed subsection on dragons in an attempt to both expand beyond the commonly told tales and consider a subset of the massive work chosen neither by history nor by a modern scholar, but by the compilers of the text themselves. In short, the liminal and transformational nature of dragons as well as their connection to rain, wind, rivers, lakes, and seas reflects a mid-Imperial interest in strange relationships between humans, nature, and non-human entities. These tales demand to be read through the emerging field of queer ecology that questions the separation between humans and non-humans, between culture and nature, between self and other, between normal and abnormal, between male and female, and between straight and gay. Though most queer ecology focuses on literature of the modern West, the mutually-informed construction of normative gender identity or sexuality on one hand and the concept of nature or being natural on the other resonates in both the modern West and mid-Imperial China. This resonance provides a foundation for reading this text with queer ecology and also suggests that this theory would benefit from considering the Taiping Guangji. As Chinese dragons run athwart the lines of culture/nature and human/non-human divides, the dragon tales of the Taiping Guangji are an excellent place to begin this discussion. That the questions of culture and nature, humanity and animality were of central concern to Confucian scholars in the late Tang suggests that these texts speak to much broader intellectual concerns of the day and still carry meaning for new audiences today.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798368466095Subjects--Topical Terms:

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