Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries

Kristen L. Chiem, Ph.D (2011), University of California, Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Art History at Pepperdine University. She has published articles examining the intersections of gender, painting, and garden imagery in late imperial China. Lara C. W. Blanchard, Ph.D. (2001), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Luce Professor of East Asian Art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She has published articles on gender and Chinese art from the Song to Ming dynasties.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionKristen L. Chiem and Lara C. W. BlanchardPart 1Representations of Femininity1 Cartographies of Alterity: Shape-Shifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Late Seventeenth-Century JapanRadu Leca2 Indoctrinating Female Virtue: The Social Use of Chosŏn Woodblock PrintsNayeon Kim3 Beauty under the Willow Tree: Picturing Virtuous Women in Nineteenth-Century ChinaKristen L. Chiem4 Skillful Means (upāya) of the Courtesan as Bodhisattva Fugen: Maruyama Ōkyo’s Lady EguchiIkumi KaminishiPart 2Women as Makers5 The Artistic Legacy of Yōgen’in, A Mortuary Temple Sponsored by Women in Early Modern KyotoElizabeth Lillehoj6 Reconfijiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured HarmonyYing-chen Peng7 Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art HistoryCharlotte HorlyckPart 3Constructions of Gender and Interactions with the West8 The Personal is Political: The Life and Death and Life of Na Hye-sŏk (1896–1948)Sunglim Kim9 “Civilized” Men and “Superstitious” Women: Visualizing the Hokkaido Ainu in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880Christina M. SpikerIndex