Male friendship in Ming China [electronic resource] / edited by Martin W. Huang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huang, Martin W., 1960-

Series:

Brill eBook titles 2007

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male friendship--China--History.

Male friendship.

Men--China--History.

Men.

Friendship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 .

Contents:

Preliminary Material / M.W. Huang

Male Friendship In Ming China: An Introduction / Martin W. Huang

Friendship Through Fourteenth-Century Fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao And Ding Henian / Anne Gerritsen

Music And Male Bonding In Ming China / Joseph S. C. Lam

A Friendship Of Metal And Stone: Representations Of Fan Juqing And Zhang Yuanbo In The Ming Dynasty / Kimberly Besio

Male Friendship And Jiangxue (Philosophical Debates) In Sixteenth-Century China / Martin W. Huang

A Selected Bibliography Of Secondary Sources / Martin W. Huang

Index / Harriet T. Zurndorfer.

Notes:

"The content of this volume is a reprint of vol. 9, issue 1 (2007) of Nan Nü, men, women and gender in China"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06148-1

90-474-1958-8

OCLC:

711004325

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004160262.i-187 DOI