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Men and women in Qing China : gender in The red chamber dream / by Louise P. Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Louise P., author.
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--China.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands ; New York ; Koln : Brill, [1994]
- Summary:
- This volume is a comprehensive analysis of constructions of gender in the great Chinese novel, The Red Chamber Dream. It provides a fascinating discussion of issues such as bisexuality, virginity, sexual power and parenting in the context of Qing dynasty China.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- I. Explication of Theory
- II. Hongxue Before 1949
- Miscellaneous critiques
- Small details school
- Hidden meaning school
- Western influence and Wang Guowei
- Hu Shi, Yu Pingbo and New Hongxue
- Hongxue of the 1940s
- III. Gender Imperatives: Jia Baoyu's Bisexuality
- Theoretical background
- Baoyu's bisexuality
- Phallogocentricism reinforced
- IV. Young Women and Prescriptions of Purity
- Sacred women
- Interaction between mythic and mimetic realms
- Married/Unmarried: The power of pollution
- The womanly virtue of chastity
- V. Wang Xifeng: Young Women and Power
- The absence of a victim
- Chaos manifested in confusing yin with yang
- Chaos manifested in yin subduing yang
- Daughters-in-law as motifs of decay
- VI. Domesticating the Woman Warrior: Comparisons with Jinghua yuan
- Fourth Sister Lin and the Jinghua yuan warriors
- Filial piety, loyalty and the Amazons
- Moral mirrors for society
- The sexualized woman warrior
- Disruptive potential
- VII. Jia Family Women: Unrestrained 'Indulgent Mothers'
- Ci mu as destroyer of children
- Decline of the yan fu
- Immoral sons: Products of bad mothering
- VIII. Men of the Jia Clan: Responsible or Degenerate
- Education: An indicator of morality
- Adherence to legal and ritual customs
- Empty attention to propriety
- IX. Hongxue After 1949 and Gender Equality
- Origins of Hongxue's discourse of sexual equality
- Interaction between sex and class
- Comparing social systems
- A discourse perpetuating inequality
- Bibliography of English Materials
- Bibliography of Chinese Materials
- Index
- SINICA LEIDENSIA.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-48271-7
- OCLC:
- 1281972856
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