Misers, shrews, and polygamists : sexuality and male-female relations in eighteenth-century Chinese fiction /

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Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McMahon, Keith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1700-1800.
Sex customs > China.
Man-woman relationships > China.
Sex in literature.
Sexual Behavior > history
Literature, Modern > chinese
Literature, Modern > history
Vie sexuelle > Chine.
Relations entre hommes et femmes > Chine.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
Man-woman relationships
Sex customs
Sex in literature
Geschlechterverhältnis
Roman
China
Chinesisch.
Chinese fiction > Special subjects > Sexuality
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Potent polygamists and chaste monogamists
  • Polygamy according to fiction and prescriptive models
  • Shrews and jealousy in seventeenth and eighteenth-century vernacular fiction
  • The self-containing man: the miser and ascetic
  • The chaste "beauty-scholar" romance and the superiority of the talented woman
  • The erotic scholar-beauty romance
  • A case for Confucian sexuality: chaste polygamy in Yesou Puyan
  • Polygyny, crossing of gender, and the superiority of women in Honglou Meng
  • The overly virtuous wife and the wastrel polygamist in Lin Lan Xiang
  • The spoiled son and the doting mother in Qilu Deng
  • The other scholar and beauty: the wastrel and the prostitute in Lüye Xianzong
  • The benevolent polygamist and the domestication of sexual pleasure in Shenlou Zhi
  • Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan as antidote to Honglou Meng
  • Promiscuous polygyny and male self-critique
  • Glossary of Chinese characters.

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