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Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity / / Beverely Bossler



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Autore: Bossler Beverely Visualizza persona
Titolo: Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity / / Beverely Bossler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Boston : , : Harvard University Asia Center, , 2013
Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 464 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 305.40951
Soggetto topico: Concubinage - China - History - To 1500
Courtesans - China - History - To 1500
Man-woman relationships - China - History - To 1500
Sex role - China - History - To 1500
Wives - China - History - To 1500
Women - China - Social conditions
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-456) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Part One. Culture, Politics, and Gender in the Northern Song. 1. Courtesans and the Northern Song elite ; 2. The courtesan as concubine ; 3. Prose, politics, and prodigies -- Part Two. Markets, Mayhem, and Morality in the Southern Song. 4. Performance anxiety ; 5. Entertainers to ancestors ; 6. Loss, loyalty, and local leverage -- Part Three. Conquerors and Culture in the Yuan. 7. Exemplary entertainers ; 8. Performers, paramours, and parents ; 9. Entertaining exemplars.
Sommario/riassunto: This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups -- and of male discourses about them -- transformed ideas about family relations and the proper roles of men and women. Courtesan culture profoundly affected Song social and family life, as entertainment skills became a defining feature of a new model of concubinage and entertainer-concubines increasingly became mothers of literati sons. Neo-Confucianism, the new moral learning of the Song, was in turn significantly shaped by this entertainment culture and the new markets in women it created. Responding to a broad social consensus, Neo-Confucians called for enhanced ritual recognition of concubine mothers and expressed increased concern about wifely jealousy. The book also details the sometimes surprising origins of the Late Imperial cult of fidelity, showing that from its inception the drive to celebrate female loyalty stemmed from a complex amalgam of political, social, and moral agendas. By taking women -- and men's relationships with them -- seriously, Beverly Bossler demonstrates the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
Titolo autorizzato: Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-68417-067-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798551303321
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Serie: Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; ; 83.