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The Chinese Virago

Yenna Wu
The Chinese Virago Book PDF

Author : Yenna Wu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684170203

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The Chinese Virago by Yenna Wu Pdf

Drawing from a broad array of literary, historical, dramatic and anecdotal sources, Yenna Wu makes a rich exploration of an unusually prominent theme in premodern Chinese prose fiction and drama: that of jealous and belligerent wives, or viragos, who dominate their husbands and abuse other women. Focusing on Chinese literary works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, she presents many colorful perspectives on this type of aggression, reviewing early literary and historical examples of the phenomenon. Wu argues that although the various portraits of the virago often reveal the writers' insecurities about strong-willed women in general, the authors also satirize the kind of man whose behavioral patterns have been catalysts for female aggression. She also shows that, while the women in these works are to some extent male constructs designed to affirm the patriarchal system, various elements of these portraits constitute a subversive form of parody that casts a revealing light on the patriarchal hierarchy of premodern China.

Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature

Anonim
Wanton Women in Late Imperial Chinese Literature Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004340626

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Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature by Anonim Pdf

In Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature, the essay contributors explore how from the late Ming onward images of sexually transgressive women developed across a range of genres as women and men addressed tensions between past ideals and lived worlds.

Traditional Chinese Medicine for Women

Xiaolan Zhao,Kanae Kinoshita
Traditional Chinese Medicine for Women Book PDF

Author : Xiaolan Zhao,Kanae Kinoshita
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : 1844083837

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Traditional Chinese Medicine for Women by Xiaolan Zhao,Kanae Kinoshita Pdf

In this inspirational book Xiaolan Zhao, internationally-renowned practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), shows us how making simple changes to our diet and lifestyle we can profoundly improve our health now and into the future. Since establishing her practice in Canada in 1993, Xiaolan Zhao has treated thousands of women suffering from fatigue, PMS, infertility, depression, menopausal symptoms and various gynaecological disorders - health problems that are all too common in the West but less so in China, where TCM has been an integral part of women's lives for thousands of years. As a physician originally trained in Western medicine who later earned a degree in TCM, Xiaolan has seen how effective the Chinese approach is for her patients and here shares its wisdom and practices. Sharing remarkable stories from her own life and the lives of her patients, she shows how we can develop new relationships with our bodies and our emotions and how through preventative self-care we can improve our health, increase vitality and prevent illness.

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China

Iwo Amelung
Discourses of Weakness in Modern China Book PDF

Author : Iwo Amelung
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783593509020

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Discourses of Weakness in Modern China by Iwo Amelung Pdf

Die Vorstellung, China sei ein "schwacher Staat", der in einer zunehmend darwinistisch konzipierten Welt nicht konkurrenzfähig sei, beherrschte vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, besonders seit dem verlorenen Krieg gegen Japan (1894/95), bis in die 1930er-Jahre den politischen Diskurs in China selbst wie auch in anderen Ländern der Welt. Der Band zeichnet diese "Untergangsgeschichte" des "kranken Mannes Asiens" nach und hilft somit, das Selbstverständnis und die Identität des heutigen China zu verstehen.

Reading China [electronic resource]

Daria Berg
Reading China electronic resource Book PDF

Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004154834

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Reading China [electronic resource] by Daria Berg Pdf

This volume develops a new style of reading Chinese sources, as pioneered in Chinese Studies by Professor Glen Dudbridge, providing fascinating new insights into Chinese literature, history and popular culture. The analysis of self-fashioning, representation and political propaganda sheds new light on Chinese perceptions of the world.

Untamed Shrews

Shu Yang
Untamed Shrews Book PDF

Author : Shu Yang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501770630

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Untamed Shrews by Shu Yang Pdf

Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social order and served as a justification for punishing any woman exhibiting these qualities. In this book, Shu Yang connects these shrewish qualities to symbols of female empowerment in modern China. Rather than meeting her demise, the shrew persisted, and her negative qualities became the basis for many forms of the new woman, ranging from the early Republican suffragettes and Chinese Noras, to the Communist and socialist radicals. Criticism of the shrew endured, but her vicious, sexualized, and transgressive nature became a source of pride, placing her among the ranks of liberated female models. Untamed Shrews shows that whether male writers and the state hate, fear, or love them, there will always be a place for the vitality of unruly women. Unlike in imperial times, the shrew in modern China stayed untamed as an inspiration for the new woman.

The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China

Chun Mei
The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China Book PDF

Author : Chun Mei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004191662

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The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China by Chun Mei Pdf

Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.

The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism

Y. Chen
The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism Book PDF

Author : Y. Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230119185

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The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism by Y. Chen Pdf

In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait. It problematizes recent scholarly understanding of feminist complexity in various Chinese-speaking areas. This book addresses sociocultural backgrounds of how Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong feminist scholars strategize their transfers, localization, and acculturation of Western feminist literary theories. It emphasizes how Chinese literary theorists filter, gate-keep, select, import latest Western feminist theories, and then match them with local socio-cultural trends by exerting comparative researchers' cross-cultural and cross-lingual academic power in order to tackle Mainland China's, Taiwan's, and Hong Kong's own gender problems.

A Guide to Chinese Literature

Wilt Idema,Lloyd Haft
A Guide to Chinese Literature Book PDF

Author : Wilt Idema,Lloyd Haft
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780892641239

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A Guide to Chinese Literature by Wilt Idema,Lloyd Haft Pdf

Selected for Choice's list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1997. A comprehensive overview of China's 3,000 years of literary history, from its beginnings to the present day. After an introductory section discussing the concept of literature and other features of traditional Chinese society crucial to understanding its writings, the second part is broken into five major time periods (earliest times to 100 c.e.; 100-1000; 1000-1875; 1875-1915; and 1915 to the present) corresponding to changes in book production. The development of the major literary genres is traced in each of these periods. The reference section in the cloth edition includes an annotated bibliography of more than 120 pages; the paper edition has a shorter bibliography and is intended for classroom use.

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

Victor H. Mair
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature Book PDF

Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1369 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231528511

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The Columbia History of Chinese Literature by Victor H. Mair Pdf

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the role of women, and China's relationship with non-Sinitic languages and peoples. Opening with a major section on the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature, the anthology traces the development of forms and movements over time, along with critical trends, and pays particular attention to the premodern canon.

Reading East Asian Writing

Michel Hockx,Ivo Smits
Reading East Asian Writing Book PDF

Author : Michel Hockx,Ivo Smits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136134104

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Reading East Asian Writing by Michel Hockx,Ivo Smits Pdf

This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various new theories that have emerged during the past two decades, uprooting traditional forms of understanding literary texts, their function, their readership and their interpretation. Often confined to discussion of a specific country or area, these theories have been criticised for their Western bias. This collection breaks through these barriers, providing an opportunity for scholars of two closely related yet often independently studied cultures to present and compare their views on specific theories of literature, to discuss the advantages and shortcomings of those theories, and to consider specific difficulties related to the East-West dimension.

China’s Cosmopolitan Empire

Mark Edward Lewis
China s Cosmopolitan Empire Book PDF

Author : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674054196

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China’s Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Edward Lewis Pdf

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.

Studies in Chinese Poetry

James R. Hightower,Florence Chia-ying Yeh
Studies in Chinese Poetry Book PDF

Author : James R. Hightower,Florence Chia-ying Yeh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684170289

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Studies in Chinese Poetry by James R. Hightower,Florence Chia-ying Yeh Pdf

This collection of seventeen essays by James R. Hightower and Florence Chia-ying Yeh contains three chapters on shih poetry, ten chapters on Sung tz'u, and four chapters on the works of Wang Kuo-wei. It includes ten previously unpublished works, including Hightower's now classic work on T'ao Ch'ien and Yeh's studies of Subg tz'u, as well as seven important additions to the literature on Chinese poetry. The essays treat individual poets, particular poetic techniques (for example, allusion), and general issues of period style and poetry criticism. The previoulsy published items have been updated to include the Chinese texts of all poems presented in translation. Although authored separately by Professors Hightower and Yeh, the essays presented here are the result of theor thirty years of collaboration in working on Chinese poetry. Through close readings of individual texts, the two authors explicate the stylistic and psychological components of the work of the poets they study and present compelling interpretations of their poems.

Chinese History

Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Chinese History Book PDF

Author : Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0674002490

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Chinese History by Endymion Porter Wilkinson Pdf

Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.

Readings in Chinese Literary Thought

Stephen Owen
Readings in Chinese Literary Thought Book PDF

Author : Stephen Owen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684170074

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Readings in Chinese Literary Thought by Stephen Owen Pdf

This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch’ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature. Stephen Owen’s masterful translations and commentaries have opened up Chinese literary thought to theorists and scholars of other languages.