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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bossler, Beverly Jo, editor, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--China--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--China--History.

Sex role--China--History.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for thousands of years, living cloistered, uneducated lives separate from the larger social and cultural world, until they were liberated by political upheavals in the twentieth century. Rich scholarship on gender in China has since complicated the picture of women in Chinese society, revealing the roles women have played as active agents in their families, businesses, and artistic communities. The essays in this collection go further by assessing the ways in which the study of gender has changed our understanding of Chinese history and showing how the study of gender in China challenges our assumptions about China, the past, and gender itself.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785397554

1785397559

9780295806013

029580601X

OCLC:

910845547