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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797253803321

Titolo

Gender and Chinese history : transformative encounters / / edited by Beverly Bossler ; contributors, Beverly Bossler [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Scattle, Washington ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78539-755-9

0-295-80601-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

304.420951

Soggetti

Women - China - Social conditions

Women - China - History

Sex role - China - History

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Terminology; Chronology; Introduction. Beverly Bossler; Part One. Early Modern Evolutions; Chapter One. Les Noces chinoises: An Eighteenth-Century French Representation of a Chinese Wedding Procession / Ann Waltner; Chapter Two. The Control of Female Energies: Gender and Ethnicity on China's Southeast Coast / Guotong Li; Chapter Three. Collecting Masculinity: Merchants and Gender Performance in Eighteenth-Century China / Yulian Wu; Chapter Four. Writing Love: The Heming ji by Wang Zhaoyuan and Hao Yixing / Weijing Lu

Part Two. "Cloistered Ladies" to New Women Chapter Five. "Media-Savvy" Gentlewomen of the 1870's and Beyond / Ellen Widmer; Chapter Six. The Fate of the Late Imperial "Talented Woman": Gender and Historical Change in Early-Twentieth-Century China / Joan Judge; Chapter Seven. Moving to Shanghai: Urban Women of Means in the Late Qing / Yan Wang; Part Three. Radicalism and Ruptures; Chapter Eight. The Life of a Slogan / Emily Honig; Chapter Nine. Bad Transmission / Gail Hershatter; Glossary of Chinese Characters; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index