The Moral and Metaphysical Ubiquity of Filiality (Xiao) in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction

• CLEAR Chinese Literature Essays Articles Reviews

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Lupke, Christopher

• This review article surveys three new books that take up, to one extent or another, the theme of filiality (xiao) in late imperial Chinese literature, especially vernacular fiction. The article provides context for and analyzes all three works in an effort to outline some of the key features of filiality and its attendant concerns.

• Date created

  2022-12-20

• Subjects / Keywords

  • filiality, late imperial Chinese literature, memorial, elegy, vernacular Chinese fiction, gazetteers, Maram Epstein, Maria Franca Sibau, Martin Huang, emotion, qing

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-envn-4e53

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International