Meaning of yuanyang hudie pai | Babel Free

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A type of Chinese fiction modeled after classical romances involving a tragic love between an effeminate male protagonist and a tender young woman.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“The Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school (yuanyang hudie pai; henceforth Butterfly) has its origins in the mid-1910s boom in commercial periodicals.”

“Even a shallow reading tells us that some of Ye's stories have features of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School (yuanyang hudie pai 鸳鸯蝴蝶派).”

“Leftist critics coined for them the depreciative polemical label yuanyang-hudie pai 鸳鸯蝴蝶派, "Mandarin-ducks-and-butterflies School", and construed in their critical discourse the overwhelmingly negative image of popular fiction as a purely commercial product for superficial entertainment and diversion, steeped in old-fashioned values and atavistic modes of behaviour, and adhering to outdated literary forms and techniques.”

CEFR level