Male Anxiety and Female Chastity

Male Anxiety and Female Chastity PDF Author: Ju-K'Ang T'Ien
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645330
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Male Anxiety and Female Chastity

Male Anxiety and Female Chastity PDF Author: Ju-K'Ang T'Ien
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645330
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Male Anxiety and Female Chastity

Male Anxiety and Female Chastity PDF Author: Rukang Tian
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004083615
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Male Anxiety and Female Chastity

Male Anxiety and Female Chastity PDF Author: Rukang Tian
Publisher: T'Oung Pao. Monographies
ISBN: 9789004083615
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Male Anxiety and Female Chastity

Male Anxiety and Female Chastity PDF Author: Jordan D. Paper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004080997
Category : Anxiety
Languages : de
Pages : 108

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Male Anxiety and Female Chastity

Male Anxiety and Female Chastity PDF Author: Daochun Liu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004080997
Category : Anxiety
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Passionate Women

Passionate Women PDF Author: Paul Ropp
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004483020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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This is a collection of original essays which focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China. It is the first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the May Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female suicide in the wider context of more recent scholarship on women and gender relations in late imperial China. The essays also reveal the world of tensions, conflicting demands and expectations, and a variety of means by which both women and men made moral sense of their lives in late imperial China. The volume closes with an extensive bibliography of relevant and important Chinese, Japanese, and Western publications related to female suicide in late imperial China.

A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China

A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China PDF Author: Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520921474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within the dynastic government were usually filled through these difficult examinations, and every other year some one to two million people from all levels of society attempted them. Covering the late imperial system from its inception to its demise, Elman revises our previous understanding of how the system actually worked, including its political and cultural machinery, the unforeseen consequences when it was unceremoniously scrapped by modernist reformers, and its long-term historical legacy. He argues that the Ming-Ch'ing civil examinations from 1370 to 1904 represented a substantial break with T'ang-Sung dynasty literary examinations from 650 to 1250. Late imperial examinations also made "Tao Learning," Neo-Confucian learning, the dynastic orthodoxy in official life and in literati culture. The intersections between elite social life, popular culture, and religion that are also considered reveal the full scope of the examination process throughout the late empire.

Uncrossing the Borders

Uncrossing the Borders PDF Author: Daphne Lei
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131370
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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Over many centuries, women on the Chinese stage committed suicide in beautiful and pathetic ways just before crossing the border for an interracial marriage. Uncrossing the Borders asks why this theatrical trope has remained so powerful and attractive. The book analyzes how national, cultural, and ethnic borders are inevitably gendered and incite violence against women in the name of the nation. The book surveys two millennia of historical, literary, dramatic texts, and sociopolitical references to reveal that this type of drama was especially popular when China was under foreign rule, such as in the Yuan (Mongol) and Qing (Manchu) dynasties, and when Chinese male literati felt desperate about their economic and political future, due to the dysfunctional imperial examination system. Daphne P. Lei covers border-crossing Chinese drama in major theatrical genres such as zaju and chuanqi, regional drama such as jingju (Beijing opera) and yueju (Cantonese opera), and modernized operatic and musical forms of such stories today.

Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries

Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries PDF Author: Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317473655
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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This book introduces important contributions in the humanities by a select group of traditional and modern Korean women, from the 15th through the 20th centuries. The literary and artistic works of these women are considered Korean classics, and the featured artists and writers range from a queen, to a courtesan, to a Buddhist nun, to unknown women of Korea. Although women's works were generally meant only to circulate among women, these creative expressions have caught the attention of literary and artistic connoisseurs. By bringing them to light, the book seeks to demonstrate how Korean women have tried to give their lives meaning over the ages through their very diverse, yet common artistic responses to the details and drama of everyday life in Confucian Korea. The stories of these women and their work give us glimpses of their personal views on culture, aesthetics, history, society, politics, morality, and more.

Male Friendship in Ming China

Male Friendship in Ming China PDF Author: Martin Huang
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047419588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called “five cardinal human relationships”. Why the cult of friendship in Ming China? How was male friendship theorized, practiced and represented during that period? These are some of the questions the current volume deals with. Coming from different disciplines (history, musicology and literary studies), the contributors thoroughly explore the complexities and the gendered nature of friendship in Ming China. This volume has also been published as a special theme issue of Brill's journal NAN NÜ, Men, Women and Gender in China.