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Male friendship in Ming China /

This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Huang, Martin W., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called five cardinal human relationships. Why the cult of friendship in Ming China? How was male friendship theorized, practiced and represented during that period? These are some of the questions the current volume deals with. Coming from different disciplines (history, musicology and liter.
Notas:"The content of this volume is a reprint of vol. 9, issue 1 (2007) of Nan Nü, men, women and gender in China"--Title page verso
Descripción Física:1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789047419587
9047419588