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Crossing boundaries and confounding identity : Chinese women in literature, art, and film / edited by Cheryl C. D. Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in Asian studies development.
- SUNY Series in Asian Studies Development Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--China.
- Women.
- Women in art.
- Women in literature.
- Women in motion pictures.
- China.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Works Cited
- Chapter 1 Emily Georgiana Kemp: An Early Twentieth-Century Traveler's Perspective on the Heart-Mind of China
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Women's Agency at the Close of Ming Dynasty China: Vulnerability, Violation, and Vengeance in Ling Mengchu's Vernacular Short Stories
- Vulnerability
- Accepting the Assailant
- Vengeance
- Context: Late Ming Dynasty
- Works Cited
- Chapter 3 A Flight of Cultural Imagination in Heian Japan: The Image of Yang Guifei in Genji monagatori and "Chang hen ge"
- The "Chang Hen Ge" Paradigm
- The Poetic Flight of the Figure of a Maboroshi in Genji Monogatari
- Chapter 1: The Figure of Yang Guifei in the First Generation of an Amorous Hero in Genji
- Chapter 41: The Figure of Yang Guifei in the Second Generation of an Amorous Hero in Genji
- Chapter 54: The Figure of Yang Guifei in the Third Generation of an Amorous Hero in Genji
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Women Generals and Martial Maidens: China's Warrior Women in History, Literature, and Film
- Chapter 5 Women in Male Roles: Cross-Dressed Actresses in Early Twentieth-Century China
- Becoming the "Man of the House"
- The Appeal of the Female Laosheng
- Meng Xiaodong: Actresses and Image
- Chapter 6 Pavilion of Women: Gender Politics and Global Cultural Translatability
- Textual Migration: Transcultural Duality and Global Media Politics
- Translated Subaltern
- Sexualized Narrative
- Schizophrenic Cinema
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 7 Gendered Screens: Women, Space, and Social Transformation in the Works of Contemporary Chinese Female Filmmakers
- Space, Cinema, Gender
- The Unhomely Home: My Father and I and Shanghai Women
- The Modernizing City: Go Lala Go! and Shanghai Story
- Across Time and Space: Somewhere Only We Know and Please Remember Me
- Chapter 8 Women in Chinese Visual Art over the Past Century
- Chapter 9 "Lessons for Women": From The Good Earth to Leftover Women
- From Histories to Herstories
- Herstory or Women's History
- The Beginnings of the Cultural and Moral Landscape
- History from the Top Down: the Dowager Empress
- History from the Bottom Up: The Peasantry
- From Footbinding and Concubinage to the Anti-Footbinding Movement
- From the Anti-Footbinding Movement to Women in the State
- Love and Marriage
- From Marriage to Family Reverence
- Large-Scale Tragedies
- "The World Is Yours": Mao's Promises and Deng's Fulfillment of Promises
- One Child Only or Fertility Control
- The Revenge: China's Leftover Women
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438492162
- 1438492162
- OCLC:
- 1365334567
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