Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Reihe: Women and Gender in China Studies
ISBN: 978-90-04-69337-1
Verlag: Brill
Canvasing a range of materials that include early tales of exemplarity, medieval song lyrics, Ming-Qing poetry and plucked rhymes, twentieth century writings about revolutionaries, opera stars, missionaries, and contemporary fiction, this volume illustrates the discourse and representation of friendship in which women gain agency and participate in broader arguments about ethics, politics, and religious transcendence. Friendship prompts reflections on gender roles, becomes the venue of literary self-consciousness, and heightens the sense of literary community. Gender and community function in new ways through the public dimension of friendship, and most importantly, the intersections of gender and friendship enable us to rethink other relationships.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Table
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Why Gender and Friendship?
Wai-yee Li
Part I: Friendship and Female Agency
1 On the Difficulty of Friendship: the Case of Li Qingzhao
Ronald Egan
2 In the Absence of Discourse: Articulating Female Friendship in Late Imperial China
Grace S. Fong
3 Laying Claim to an Autonomous Self: Women’s Friendships in the Nineteenth-Century tanci Novel Mengying yuan
Maram Epstein
Part 2: The Publicity of Friendship: Gender and Community
4 How to Fight with Your Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community
Hu Ying
5 Gender and Friendship in the Staging of a Star: Mei Lanfang
Catherine V. Yeh
6 Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton and Zhang Zhujun
Ellen Widmer
PART 3: Rethinking Relationships
7 Hermits and Their Wives: Gender and Friendship in Early Chinese Texts
Yiqun Zhou
8 Literary Negotiations: Friendship in the World of Late Ming Courtesans
Wai-yee Li
9 Love or Lust Redux: on the Pure Relationship in Chinese Literature
Haiyan Lee
Index