TY - CHAP
T1 - Conclusions
T2 - The Resilience of the Strange
AU - Whyke, Thomas William
AU - Brown, Melissa Shani
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This is the final chapter of this book, in which we offer a conclusion and some final thoughts on this book’s aims: to queer and query zhiguai tales, and to reflect upon the imagination of identities between the past and the present. Here we muse on the themes of this book, and the transgressive potentials of the zhiguai genre as a vehicle for social criticism. Though we have focused on historic literature, zhiguai from the Qing Dynasty, we finish by briefly exploring the endurance of zhiguai in contemporary China (PRC). This includes a variety of new forms present online, which we consider a continuation of the tradition, and zhiguai returning to its oral and popular roots.
AB - This is the final chapter of this book, in which we offer a conclusion and some final thoughts on this book’s aims: to queer and query zhiguai tales, and to reflect upon the imagination of identities between the past and the present. Here we muse on the themes of this book, and the transgressive potentials of the zhiguai genre as a vehicle for social criticism. Though we have focused on historic literature, zhiguai from the Qing Dynasty, we finish by briefly exploring the endurance of zhiguai in contemporary China (PRC). This includes a variety of new forms present online, which we consider a continuation of the tradition, and zhiguai returning to its oral and popular roots.
KW - Lingyi fangzhi
KW - New media in China
KW - Online short stories
KW - Zhiguai
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169049636&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-4258-9_8
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-4258-9_8
M3 - Book Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85169049636
T3 - Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
SP - 229
EP - 237
BT - Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
PB - Springer
ER -