{"id":1763,"date":"2013-03-20T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2013-03-19T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T01:46:48","slug":"chinese-literature-dissertation-reviews-jeongsoo-shins-from-bewitching-beauty-to-effete-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Jeongsoo Shin’s From Bewitching Beauty to Effete King"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Transgendering <\/a>Dissertation Reviews <\/a>has posted Sixiang Wang<\/a>\u2018s review of Jeongsoo Shin<\/a>‘s From Bewitching Beauty to Effete King<\/a>: Transgendering of King Peony in Medieval Chinese and Korean Literature<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

The peony has come to have a variety of associations in the East Asian literary tradition. Its luxurious petals have signaled wealth and beauty while its peculiar, seedless manner of reproduction has come to symbolize sterility and empty luxury. It has even come to represent political power as a symbol of China as a nation, arguably one of its dominant associations today. In his fascinating account of the peony\u2019s literary history, From Bewitching Beauty to Effete King<\/em>, Jeongsoo Shin seeks to understand the evolving connotations of this one flower. Shin not only examines the literary traditions associated with the peony in medieval China, but traces the flower\u2019s cultivation and literary symbolism as it traveled to Silla Korea (57 BCE\u2013935 CE). As the peony\u2019s gender was transformed in this process of transmission, it also acquired a separate set of symbolic resonances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dissertation Reviews has posted Sixiang Wang\u2018s review of Jeongsoo Shin‘s From Bewitching Beauty to Effete King: Transgendering of King Peony in Medieval Chinese and Korean Literature. Here\u2019s how it begins: The peony has come to have a variety of associations … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[623,3,16],"tags":[993,992],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-sr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1398,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1398","url_meta":{"origin":1763,"position":0},"title":"Announcing Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We are delighted to welcome a new member to the Dissertation Reviews family. 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