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Lost bodies : prostitution and masculinity in Chinese fiction /
This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journe...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Collection: | Women and gender in China studies ;
v. 3. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Paradise lost : the fantastic childhood of a courtesan to be
- Lost and found : the socialization of the prostituted body
- Family matters : patterns of solidarity and discord in the brothel
- Nobody's son : prostitution and the disintegration of the family romance
- Taking flight poverty, sickness, and death
- Epilogue : back to the future : nostalgia and prostitution.