Women and Gender in China Studies – serie
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13 produkter
Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present
A Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages
Av Robin Yates
Inbunden, 2009
2430 kr
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This essential reference work provides an alphabetic listing, with an extensive index, of studies on women in China from earliest times to the present day written in Western languages, primarily English, French, German, and Italian. Containing more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, …
Maoist Model Theatre
The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
Inbunden, 2009
2222 kr
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Here is a convincing reflection that changes our understanding of gender in Maoist culture, esp. for what critics from the 1990s onwards have termed its ‘erasure’ of gender and sexuality. In particular the strong heroines of the yangbanxi, or ‘model works’ which dominated the Cultural Revolution …
Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction
Inbunden, 2010
2486 kr
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This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey …
Inner Quarters and Beyond
Women Writers from Ming through Qing
Inbunden, 2010
3411 kr
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Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women’s experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges …
Romancing the Internet
Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance
Av Jin Feng
Inbunden, 2013
2358 kr
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In Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance, Jin Feng examines the evolution of Chinese popular romance on the Internet. She first provides a brief genealogy of Chinese Web literature and Chinese popular romance, and then investigates how large socio-cultural forces have …
Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China
Av Geng Song, Derek Hird
Inbunden, 2013
2531 kr
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In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home. No other work covers the forms and …
Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature
Models, Genres, Subversions and Traditions
Inbunden, 2017
2070 kr
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The contributors to Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature: Models, Genres, Subversions and Traditions draw attention to ‘wanton woman’ themes across time as they were portrayed in court history (McMahon), fiction (Stevenson), drama (Lam, Wu), and songs and ballads (Ôki, Epstein, …
Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire
Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry
Inbunden, 2018
2429 kr
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This book is the winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies.In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent …
Engendering the Woman Question: Men, Women, and Writing in China’s Early Periodical Press
Av Yun Zhang
Inbunden, 2020
2560 kr
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In Engendering the Woman Question, Zhang Yun adopts a new approach to examining the early Chinese women’s periodical press. Rather than seeing this new print and publishing genre as a gendered site coded as either “feminine” or “masculine,” this book approaches it as a mixed-gender public space …
Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment
The Construction of the Feminine Voice in Early Medieval Chinese Literature
Av Qiulei Hu
Inbunden, 2023
1687 kr
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This book studies the formation of the male-constructed conventional voice of women in Chinese literature from the 3rd to 6th century.It highlights specific moments during which the feminine voice became recognized, accepted, and stabilized, including the shift of focus from the performative to the …
Journey of Passion
Desire, Identity, and Community in Romance Genres of Imperial China
Av Ying Zou
Inbunden, 2026
2447 kr
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How were intimate feelings shaped by social and cultural practices in imperial China, and how did they, in turn, participate in processes of identity formation, generate new modes of subjectivity and sociality, and give rise to varied styles of emotional expression? In what ways did traditional …
Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2024
2286 kr
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Canvasing a range of materials that include early tales of exemplarity, medieval song lyrics, Ming-Qing poetry and plucked rhymes, twentieth century writings about revolutionaries, opera stars, missionaries, and contemporary fiction, this volume illustrates the discourse and representation of …
Women as Writing Subjects in High Qing China
Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety
Inbunden, 2024
1558 kr
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In what ways did Qing gentry women’s concern for gender and social propriety shape their assertions of female subjectivity and agency? How did they exploit the state promotion of female virtue and Confucian morality for self-fulfillment? With a focus on three of the most widely acclaimed mid-Qing …
