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yuanyang hudie pai

yuanyang hudie pai noun: a type of Chinese fiction modeled after classical romances involving a tragic love between an effeminate male protagonist and a tender young woman.

Noun

yuanyang hudie pai (uncountable)

  1. A type of Chinese fiction modeled after classical romances involving a tragic love between an effeminate male protagonist and a tender young woman.
    • There is no good reason to keep replicating the terminological blunders and ideological biases of the anti-popular May Fourth critics, who used yuanyang hudie pai xiaoshuo as a sweeping epithet of dismissal for rival turf on the literary scene.2000, Tamkang Review - Volume 31, Issues 1-3
    • The Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school (yuanyang hudie pai; henceforth Butterfly) has its origins in the mid-1910s boom in commercial periodicals.2003, Joshua S. Mostow, The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, →ISBN, page 355

Origin of yuanyang hudie pai

Borrowed from Mandarin 鸳鸯蝴蝶派 (yuānyāng-húdié pài, literally “Mandarin ducks and butterflies school”).

Questions about yuanyang hudie pai

What does yuanyang hudie pai mean?
Yuanyang hudie pai means a type of Chinese fiction modeled after classical romances involving a tragic love between an effeminate male protagonist and a tender young woman.
What part of speech is yuanyang hudie pai?
Yuanyang hudie pai is a noun.

Words near yuanyang hudie pai in the dictionary

  1. Yuanqu
  2. yuans
  3. Yuanshan
  4. yuanyang
  5. yuanyang hudie
  6. yuanyang hudie pai
  7. yuanyangs
  8. Yuanzhou
  9. Yuapin
  10. Yuat
  11. yuba

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