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Negotiating masculinities in late imperial China /
Annotation "Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and how they understood masculinity? How did their attitudes in turn shape the martial heroes and other masculine models they...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1. Engendering the Loyal Minister
- 1. From True Man to Castrato: Early Models and Later Ramifications
- 2. From Faithful Wife to Whore: The Minister-Concubine Complex in Ming Politics
- 3. The Case of Xu Wei: A Frustrated Hero or a Weeping Widow?
- 4. Manhood and Nationhood: Chaste Women and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty
- Part 2. Heroes and Other Competing Models
- 5. From Yingxiong to Haohan: Models of Masculinity in San'guo yanyi and Shuihu zhuan
- 6. Reconstructing Haohan in Three Novels from the Sui-Tang Romance Cycle
- 7. Effeminacy, Femininity, and Male-Male Passions
- 8. Romantic Heroes in Yesou puyan and Sanfen meng quanzhuan
- Part 3. What a Man Ought to Be
- 9. Ideals and Fears in Prescriptive Literature
- Epilogue: Masculinity and Modernity
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.