{"title":"Shan Ameng, Shaanxi Songs of a Boudoir Beauty (Also known as Zither Songs of a Boudoir Beauty or Marital Harmony and credited to Pu Songling)","authors":"W. L. Idema","doi":"10.1353/cop.2021.a800144","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article provides a full translation of Guiyan Qinsheng (Shaanxi Songs of a Boudoir Beauty). This text, made up of songs and verse and arranged in ten chapters, provides a detailed first-person narrative of the feelings of a young girl as she matures from a teenager eager to get married to a happy bride, in the process shedding her innocence and turning into a manipulative tease. It stands out for the relative openness with which it describes female sexuality. The introduction focuses on the disputed authorship of this text. While the earliest known printings credit Guiyan Qinsheng to a certain Shan Ameng, the text, under a slightly different title, has also been studied and published in recent decades as one of the rustic songs of Pu Songling (1640–1715).","PeriodicalId":37726,"journal":{"name":"CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature","volume":"40 1","pages":"35 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cop.2021.a800144","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article provides a full translation of Guiyan Qinsheng (Shaanxi Songs of a Boudoir Beauty). This text, made up of songs and verse and arranged in ten chapters, provides a detailed first-person narrative of the feelings of a young girl as she matures from a teenager eager to get married to a happy bride, in the process shedding her innocence and turning into a manipulative tease. It stands out for the relative openness with which it describes female sexuality. The introduction focuses on the disputed authorship of this text. While the earliest known printings credit Guiyan Qinsheng to a certain Shan Ameng, the text, under a slightly different title, has also been studied and published in recent decades as one of the rustic songs of Pu Songling (1640–1715).
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The focus of CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature is on literature connected to oral performance, broadly defined as any form of verse or prose that has elements of oral transmission, and, whether currently or in the past, performed either formally on stage or informally as a means of everyday communication. Such "literature" includes widely-accepted genres such as the novel, short story, drama, and poetry, but may also include proverbs, folksongs, and other traditional forms of linguistic expression.
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