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The central argument and primary intervention of Professor Maram Epstein's new book can be summarized with the title of its first chapter, "Taking Filial Love Seriously." Epstein challenges the Euro-centric paradigm that predisposes modern readers to focus on romantic love when studying human emotions. Decentering romantic love as idealized in the concept of companionate marriage, Orthodox Passions successfully restores filial piety (xiao 孝) to the heart of the discussion of the family as a site of sentiment in premodern China. Epstein's reassessment of the role of parent-child bond in producing individual subjectivity allows her to provide refreshing scholarly interpretations of many Qing literary and biographical texts. Equally importantly, Epstein's treatment of filial piety as a form of sentiment rather than a mere governing tool enables her to develop new understanding of such universally relevant topics as premodern identity formation and the relationship between the affective and the normative. Chapter , "Taking Filial Love Seriously," lays out the reasons for which the author does not dismiss filial piety as a ritual concept devoid of feeling, as many scholars have done si

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Author

Du, Yue

Publisher

Project Muse

Published

2018

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences