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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450137103321

Titolo

Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-59875-012-7

1-280-09220-3

0-520-92782-6

9786613520371

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KoDorothy <1957->

HaboushJaHyun Kim

PiggottJoan R

Disciplina

305.4/0951

Soggetti

Women - China - History

Women - Japan - History

Women - Korea - History

Confucianism - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON CONVENTIONS -- Introduction -- 1. The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan -- 2. The Last Classical Female Sovereign: Kōken-Shōtoku Tennō -- 3. Representation of Females in Twelfth-Century Korean Historiography -- 4. The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in China -- 5. Women and the Transmission of Confucian Culture in Song China -- 6. Propagating Female Virtues in Chosŏn Korea -- 7. State Indoctrination of Filial Piety in Tokugawa Japan: Sons and Daughters in the Official Records of Filial Piety -- 8. Norms and Texts for Women's Education in Tokugawa Japan -- 9. Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China -- 10. Discipline and Transformation: Body and Practice in the Lives of



Daoist Holy Women of Tang China -- 11. Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in Korean Narratives -- GLOSSARY -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. What emerges is a concept of Confucianism that is dynamic instead of monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As teachers, mothers, writers, and rulers, women were active agents in this process. Neither rebels nor victims, these women embraced aspects of official norms while resisting others. The essays present a powerful image of what it meant to be female and to live a woman's life in a variety of social settings and historical circumstances. Challenging the conventional notion of Confucianism as an oppressive tradition that victimized women, this provocative book reveals it as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the nineteenth century.