Shen Fu's "Six Records of a Floating Life"

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This paper explains how Shen Fu describes his late wife's personality through anecdotes recalled. This paper further explains how like the author, Shen Yu is an outsider, a creative and even psychic personality. They both cope with the secular outside world, but cannot succeed in it.

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"Shen Fu's chronicle of an 18th century marriage based on love between himself and Yun tends to upset stereotypes one may gain of the educated classes of Qing China. In fact, Six Records of a Floating Life gives a glimpse of life at their fringes. In some respects, Shen Fu's work is typical of his day's fondness for the autobiographical novel (See Huang, 1995). On the other hand, he recounts the early marriage of people who are different, both of them creatively inclined, and bound to be outsiders in relation to their background."

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