| Description |
1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Funding |
Sponsored by James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation |
| Note |
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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Description based on information from the publisher. |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- History and criticism.
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Pirates in literature.
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Piracy -- China -- History.
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Chinese literature -- Ming dynasty.
(OCoLC)fst01906862
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Piracy. (OCoLC)fst01773008
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Pirates in literature. (OCoLC)fst01064781
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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| Chronological Term |
1368-1644
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9780472902484 open access |
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0472902482 open access |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.11564671 doi |
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