Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69337-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 669 g

Reihe: Women and Gender in China Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Li, Wai-yee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. Her recent books include The Problem and Peril of Things (Columbia, 2022), A Topsy-Turvy World (Columbia, 2023), and an annotated translation of The Peach Blossom Fan (Oxford, 2024).