Gender and friendship in Chinese literature / edited by Wai-yee Li.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li, Wai-yee, editor.

Series:

Women and gender in China studies ; v. 15.

Women and gender in China studies ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Friendship in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 313 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Summary:

"Canvasing a range of materials that include early tales of exemplarity, medieval song lyrics, Ming-Qing poetry and plucked rhymes, twentieth century writings about revolutionaries, opera stars, missionaries, and contemporary fiction, this volume illustrates the discourse and representation of friendship in which women gain agency and participate in broader arguments about ethics, politics, and religious transcendence. Friendship prompts reflections on gender roles, becomes the venue of literary self-consciousness, and heightens the sense of literary community. Gender and community function in new ways through the public dimension of friendship, and most importantly, the intersections of gender and friendship enable us to rethink other relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Table

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Why Gender and Friendship?

Wai-yee Li

Part I: Friendship and Female Agency

1 On the Difficulty of Friendship: the Case of Li Qingzhao

Ronald Egan

2 In the Absence of Discourse: Articulating Female Friendship in Late Imperial China

Grace S. Fong

3 Laying Claim to an Autonomous Self: Women's Friendships in the Nineteenth-Century tanci Novel Mengying yuan

Maram Epstein

Part 2: The Publicity of Friendship: Gender and Community

4 How to Fight with Your Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community

Hu Ying

5 Gender and Friendship in the Staging of a Star: Mei Lanfang

Catherine V. Yeh

6 Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton and Zhang Zhujun

Ellen Widmer

Part 3: Rethinking Relationships

7 Hermits and Their Wives: Gender and Friendship in Early Chinese Texts

Yiqun Zhou

8 Literary Negotiations: Friendship in the World of Late Ming Courtesans

9 Love or Lust Redux: on the Pure Relationship in Chinese Literature

Haiyan Lee

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Gender and friendship in Chinese literature

ISBN:

9004707638

9789004707634

OCLC:

1437793612

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.