Intimate memory : gender and mourning in late Imperial China / Martin W. Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Martin W., 1960- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology)--History.

Loss (Psychology).

Grief--China--History.

Grief.

Gender identity--China--History.

Gender identity.

Memory--China--History.

Memory.

History.

China.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memories, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction

The secularization of memory

Survivor's guilt

Hagiographical memory

Wounded manhood

Fragments of anxiety

Remembering concubines

Circulating grief

Remembering sisters

Epilogue : A wife's remembrances.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-220) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Huang, Martin W., 1960- Intimate memory.

ISBN:

9781438468990

1438468997

OCLC:

1009182991