Gender history in China / edited by Masako Kohama and Linda Grove.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohama, Masako, 1958- editor.

Grove, Linda, 1944- editor.

Standardized Title:

Chūgoku jendā-shi kenkyū nyūmon. English.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Women--China--Social conditions.

Women.

China.

Social conditions.

Sex role--China--History.

Sex role.

History.

Families--China--History.

Families.

Physical Description:

513 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Kyoto, Japan : Kyoto University Press ; Tokyo, Japan : Trans Pacific Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leading Japanese scholars in the fields of archaeology, history, literature, sociology, and law who examine the gender dynamics that have shaped and changed Chinese society over several thousand years. The eighteen chapters and six columns look at the ways gender norms and customary legal practices shaped the family, kinship, and the social order, and how those norms were reflected in work patterns, inheritance, daily life, and literary works. Attention is given to the fundamental principle of qi (material essence) as a building block in cosmology, as well as in legal understandings of family relations. The second part of the volume turns to the dramatic changes in gender patterns from the late nineteenth century, looking at the inflow of new ideas, the struggle for political rights and economic equality, and the institution of new gender norms in socialist and reform-era China. The authors take up such topics as the view of the body in relation to Chinese cosmology, the incorporation of the military man into China's model of hegemonic masculinity, the household registration system as a means of control, the appraisal of 'talented women', and the intersection of gender norms and nationalism. Gender History in China enriches our understanding of Chinese history and of contemporary Chinese society."-- Publisher description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART I

Phase I Pre-Qin to Sui-Tang: Classical China-The Formation of Patrilineal Society

Introduction / Shimokura Wataru

1. Gender Structure in Pre-Qin China from an Archaeological Perspective / Uchlda Junko

2. The Patrilinealization of Society / Shimokura Wataru

3. Literature and Women in China / Satake Yasuko

4. The Family in the Tang Period / Wong Yu-Hsuan

Column 1 Introduction of Historical Materials: Wives' Divorce and Daughters' Inheritance of Property, Seen in Dunhuang Documents / Arakawa Masaharu

Column 2 Empress Wu Zetian and Thereafter / Kaneko Shuichi

Phase II Song to Ming-Qing: Traditional China The Strengthening of Gender Norms

Introduction / Sasaki Megumi

5. Livelihood and Gender in the Tang and Song Dynasties / Osawa Masaaki

Focal Point: An Overview of Shiga Shuzo's Principles of Chinese Family Law / Sasaki Megumi

6. Traditional Family Ideology and the Chen-Zhu School / Sasaki Megumi

7. Marriage and `Chastity': Structure and Change / Gomi Tomoko

8. The Sense of Social Status and Gender / Kishimoto Mio

Column 3 Court Ladies and Gender / Ogawa Yoshiyuki

Phase III Modem and Contemporary China Changing Gender Order

Introduction / Takashima Ko

9. Nationalism and Gender / Sakamoto Hiroko

10. Masculinity in Modem China / Takashima Ko

11. Discourses on the Family, Love and Sex in Modem China / Egami Sachiko

12. Women's Labor in Modem and Contemporary China / Linda Grove

13. The Founding of the People's Republic of China and the Transformation of Gender Order / Kohama Masako

14. Rearrangement of Gender Order in Post-Mao China: Changing Networks of Women's Federations / Ohashi Fumie

Column 4 Two Histories of Women in Modem China / Sudo Mizuyo

PART II

15. The Household Register and the Family in Ancient China / Washio Yuko

16. Perceptions of `Talented Women' / Itahashi Akiko

17. Healthcare, the Body and Gender in Chinese Medicine / Yao Yi

18. The History of Women's/Gender Studies and Feminism in China / Akiyama Yoko

Column 5 Sexual Minorities / Toyama Hideya

Column 6 Theatre and Gender / Nakayama Fumi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1925608093

9781925608090

OCLC:

1237397992

Publisher Number:

99988112249