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  1. Sharing the light
    representations of women and virtue in early China
    Author: Raphals, Lisa
    Published: c1998
    Publisher:  State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y.

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    Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0791438554; 0791438562
    Series: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
    Subjects: Women / China / History; Women / China / Conduct of life; Women / China / Social conditions
    Other subjects: Liu, Xiang 77?-6? B.C. / Lie nü zhuan
    Scope: xxiii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (P. 309-332) and index

    Publisher description: Explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early years of the Chinese state. Includes an examination of the history of yin-yang theories. Sharing the Light explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on both the treatment of women in Chinese society and on the formation of Chinese philosophical discourse on ethics, cosmology, epistemology, and self-cultivation. Warring States and Han dynasty narratives frequently represented women as intellectually adroit, politically astute, and ethically virtuous; these histories, discourses, and life stories portray women as active participants within their own society, not inert victims of it. The women depicted resembled sages, ministers, and generals as the mainstays and destroyers of dynasties. These stories emphasized that sagacity, intellect, strategy, and statecraft were virtues proper to women, an emphasis that effectively disappeared from later collections and instruction texts by and for women. During the same period, there were also important changes in the understanding of two polarities that delineated what now is called gender. Han correlative cosmology included a range of hierarchical analogies between yin and yang and men and women, and the understanding of yin and yang shifted from complementarity toward hierarchy. Similarly, the doctrine of separate spheres (inner and outer, nei-wai) shifted from a notion of appropriate distinction between men and women toward physical, social, and intellectual separation and isolation

    Inhalt: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Gender and Virtue -- 1. Women As Agents of Virtue and Destruction: Women and Ministers: Ties That Bind -- Female Virtue and the Dynastic Cycle -- The Lienu zhuan -- The Intellectual Virtue Stories -- Heroization -- 2. Women As Prescient Counselors: Instruction -- Sage Intelligence -- Benevolent Wisdom and Prescience -- Skill in Argument and Admonition -- Intellectual Virtue Stories in Other Warring States and Han Works -- Biographical Formulae -- Two Modes of Thinking? -- 3. Demonic Beauties and Usurpatious Regents: Warring States Legends of Destructive Women -- Empress Lu -- Virtuous and Vicious Consorts of Han Cheng Di -- 4. The Textual Matrix of the Lienu zhuan: Lienu zhuan Stories in Warring States Sources -- The Lienu zhuan Text and Its Attribution to Liu Xiang -- 5. Talents Transformed in Ming Editions: Ming Publishing -- Shifting Virtues -- Illustrated Editions -- 6. Yin and Yang: Yin-Yang As Two of Six Qi -- Yin-Yang As (Ultimate) Polarity -- Correlative Cosmology -- 7. Yin-Yang in Medical Texts: The Fifty-two Ailments and Mawangdui Medical Literature -- The Twenty-five Cases of Chunyu Yi -- The Huang Di neijing -- 8. Nei-wai: Distinctions between Men and Women: Zhou Norms in the Changes and Odes -- Correct Distinction between Men and Women Defines Civilization -- 9. Nei-wai in Ritual Texts and Social Practice: Subordination of Women -- Monogamy and Marriage Choice -- Physical Separation of Men and Women -- Names, Ranks, Titles, and Social Identity -- Intellectual Distinction between Men and Women -- 10. Instruction Texts: Ban Zhao's Admonitions for Women -- The Decline of the "Learned Instructress" Motif -- The Rise of Instruction Texts -- Afterword --

    Inhalt: App. 1. The Lienu zhuan -- App. 2. The Intellectual Virtue Stories -- App. 3. Vicious and Depraved Women -- App. 4. The Textual Matrix for the Lienu zhuan -- App. 5. Ming Transformations -- App. 6. Yin-Yang in Warring States Texts -- App. 7. The Medical Cases of Shi ji 105 -- App. 8. Occupations and Activities -- App. 9. Traditional Reign Dates -- Bibliography -- Index
  2. Dress, sex and text in Chinese culture
    = Zhongguo yin wenhua : yizhuo nüxing yu wenzi
    Contributor: Finnane, Antonia (Herausgeber); McLaren, Anne E (Herausgeber)
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Monash Asia Institute, Clayton, Vic.

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    Contributor: Finnane, Antonia (Herausgeber); McLaren, Anne E (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0732611741
    Subjects: Sex role / China; Women / China / Social conditions; Feminism / China
    Scope: xxiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Publisher's description: "Women's dress, women's writing, women's bodies, women's work, women as portrayed by themselves and others in literature and the arts: these are among the topics addressed in this wide-ranging collection of essays written by scholars working in a number of different areas of Chinese studies. Until recently, academic studies of Chinese women inhabited the more exotic reaches of sinology. The present volume is a contribution to a body of scholarship which over the past ten years has succeeded in transforming the field."--BOOK JACKET

    Inhalt: Introduction / Antonia Finnane, Anne McLaren -- Pt. 1. Imagining the Nation: What Should Chinese Women Wear? A National Problem / Antonia Finnane ; Commercialisation and Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Shanghai / Ye Xiaoqing ; Images of Women in Popular Prints / Tanya McIntyre ; History and Other Metaphors in Chinese-Mosuo Relations Since 1956 / Christine Mathieu -- Pt. 2. Gender Encodings: Words and Writings: Writing the Female Radical: The Encoding of Women in the Writing System / Kate Burridge, Ng Bee-Chin ; Gender and the Classification of Chinese Characters / Bob Hodge, Kam Louie ; On Researching Invisible Women: Abduction and Violation in Chinese Women's Script Writing / Anne McLaren -- Pt. 3. Feminist Discources: East and West: Consolidating a Socialist Patriarchy: The Women Writers' Industry and 'Feminist' Literary Criticism / Louise Edwards ; Representing Chinese Women: Researching Women in the Chinese Cinema / Chris Berry ; Engendering Women: Taiwan's Recent Fiction by Women / Rosemary Haddon ; Women's Studies in Literature and Feminist Literary Criticism in Contemporary China / Rosemary Roberts -- Pt. 4. Western Women Look at Chinese Women: Researching Women's Lives in Contemporary China / Beverley Hooper ; Researching Women's Work and Gender Divisions of Labour in the PRC / Tamara Jacka -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Index
  3. Gender and sexuality in twentieth-century Chinese literature and society
    Contributor: Lu, Tonglin (Herausgeber)
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  State Univ. of New York Press, Albany, N.Y.

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    Contributor: Lu, Tonglin (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0791413713; 0791413721
    Series: SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
    Subjects: Chinese literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Women in literature; Women / China / Social conditions
    Scope: X, 204 S., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references

    Publisher description: Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods

    Inhalt: Acknowledgments -- Introduction (S. 1) -- 1. Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony / Rey Chow (S. 23) -- 2. Gendering the Origins of Modern Chinese Fiction / Yue Ming-Bao (S. 47) -- 3. The Language of Desire, Class, and Subjectivity in Lu Ling's Fiction / Liu Kang (S. 67) -- 4. Liu Heng's Fuxi Fuxi: What about Nuwa? / Marie-Claire Huot (S. 85) -- 5. Rape as Castration as Spectacle: The Price of Frenzy's Politics of Confusion / Elissa Rashkin (S. 107) -- 6. A Brave New World? On the Construction of "Masculinity" and "Femininity" in The Red Sorghum Family / Zhu Ling (S. 121) -- 7. Femininity as Imprisonment: Subjectivity, Agency, and Criminality in Ai Bei's Fiction / Margaret H. Decker (S. 135) -- 8. Sisterhood?: Representations of Women's Relationships in Two Contemporary Chinese Texts / Zhong Xueping (S. 157) -- 9. Can Xue: What Is So Paranoid in Her Writings? / Tonglin Lu (S. 175)
  4. Gender and sexuality in twentieth-century Chinese literature and society
    Contributor: Lu, Tonglin (Herausgeber)
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  State Univ. of New York Press, Albany, N.Y.

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    Universität Bonn, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    895.1093522 L926 G325 1993
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    Contributor: Lu, Tonglin (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0791413713; 0791413721
    Series: SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
    Subjects: Chinese literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Women in literature; Women / China / Social conditions; Prosa; Chinesisch; Geschlechterverhältnis <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 204 S., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references

    Publisher description: Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods.

    Inhalt: Acknowledgments -- Introduction (S. 1) -- 1. Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony / Rey Chow (S. 23) -- 2. Gendering the Origins of Modern Chinese Fiction / Yue Ming-Bao (S. 47) -- 3. The Language of Desire, Class, and Subjectivity in Lu Ling's Fiction / Liu Kang (S. 67) -- 4. Liu Heng's Fuxi Fuxi: What about Nuwa? / Marie-Claire Huot (S. 85) -- 5. Rape as Castration as Spectacle: The Price of Frenzy's Politics of Confusion / Elissa Rashkin (S. 107) -- 6. A Brave New World? On the Construction of "Masculinity" and "Femininity" in The Red Sorghum Family / Zhu Ling (S. 121) -- 7. Femininity as Imprisonment: Subjectivity, Agency, and Criminality in Ai Bei's Fiction / Margaret H. Decker (S. 135) -- 8. Sisterhood?: Representations of Women's Relationships in Two Contemporary Chinese Texts / Zhong Xueping (S. 157) -- 9. Can Xue: What Is So Paranoid in Her Writings? / Tonglin Lu (S. 175).
  5. The Chinese virago
    a literary theme
    Author: Wu, Yenna
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 067412572X
    Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 40
    Subjects: Women in literature; Chinese literature / History and criticism; Women / China / Social conditions; Eifersucht <Motiv>; Ehefrau; Literatur; Chinesisch
    Other subjects: Literatur / China / Frauendarstellung; Literatur / China / Vormodern
    Scope: VIII, 312 S., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-288) and index

    Publisher's description: 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

    Inhalt: Acknowledgments. Introduction, p. 3. 1. Socio-Psychological Foundations, p. 19. 2. Archetypes and Antecedents, p. 51. 3. Condemnation, p. 89. 4. Caution and Reform, p. 125. 5. Comedy, p. 159. Notes, p. 215. Selected Bibliography, p. 267. Glossary, p. 289. Index, p. 299.
  6. Sharing the light
    representations of women and virtue in early China
    Author: Raphals, Lisa
    Published: c1998
    Publisher:  State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0791438554; 0791438562
    Series: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
    Subjects: Women / China / History; Women / China / Conduct of life; Women / China / Social conditions; Tugend <Motiv>; Soziale Situation; Yin-Yang; Literatur; Frau; Chinesisch
    Other subjects: Liu, Xiang 77?-6? B.C. / Lie nü zhuan; Liu, Xiang (v77-v6): Lienüzhuan
    Scope: xxiii, 348 p., ill., 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (P. 309-332) and index

    Publisher description: Explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early years of the Chinese state. Includes an examination of the history of yin-yang theories. Sharing the Light explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on both the treatment of women in Chinese society and on the formation of Chinese philosophical discourse on ethics, cosmology, epistemology, and self-cultivation. Warring States and Han dynasty narratives frequently represented women as intellectually adroit, politically astute, and ethically virtuous; these histories, discourses, and life stories portray women as active participants within their own society, not inert victims of it. The women depicted resembled sages, ministers, and generals as the mainstays and destroyers of dynasties. These stories emphasized that sagacity, intellect, strategy, and statecraft were virtues proper to women, an emphasis that effectively disappeared from later collections and instruction texts by and for women. During the same period, there were also important changes in the understanding of two polarities that delineated what now is called gender. Han correlative cosmology included a range of hierarchical analogies between yin and yang and men and women, and the understanding of yin and yang shifted from complementarity toward hierarchy. Similarly, the doctrine of separate spheres (inner and outer, nei-wai) shifted from a notion of appropriate distinction between men and women toward physical, social, and intellectual separation and isolation.

    Inhalt: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Gender and Virtue -- 1. Women As Agents of Virtue and Destruction: Women and Ministers: Ties That Bind -- Female Virtue and the Dynastic Cycle -- The Lienu zhuan -- The Intellectual Virtue Stories -- Heroization -- 2. Women As Prescient Counselors: Instruction -- Sage Intelligence -- Benevolent Wisdom and Prescience -- Skill in Argument and Admonition -- Intellectual Virtue Stories in Other Warring States and Han Works -- Biographical Formulae -- Two Modes of Thinking? -- 3. Demonic Beauties and Usurpatious Regents: Warring States Legends of Destructive Women -- Empress Lu -- Virtuous and Vicious Consorts of Han Cheng Di -- 4. The Textual Matrix of the Lienu zhuan: Lienu zhuan Stories in Warring States Sources -- The Lienu zhuan Text and Its Attribution to Liu Xiang -- 5. Talents Transformed in Ming Editions: Ming Publishing -- Shifting Virtues -- Illustrated Editions -- 6. Yin and Yang: Yin-Yang As Two of Six Qi -- Yin-Yang As (Ultimate) Polarity -- Correlative Cosmology -- 7. Yin-Yang in Medical Texts: The Fifty-two Ailments and Mawangdui Medical Literature -- The Twenty-five Cases of Chunyu Yi -- The Huang Di neijing -- 8. Nei-wai: Distinctions between Men and Women: Zhou Norms in the Changes and Odes -- Correct Distinction between Men and Women Defines Civilization -- 9. Nei-wai in Ritual Texts and Social Practice: Subordination of Women -- Monogamy and Marriage Choice -- Physical Separation of Men and Women -- Names, Ranks, Titles, and Social Identity -- Intellectual Distinction between Men and Women -- 10. Instruction Texts: Ban Zhao's Admonitions for Women -- The Decline of the "Learned Instructress" Motif -- The Rise of Instruction Texts -- Afterword --

    Inhalt: App. 1. The Lienu zhuan -- App. 2. The Intellectual Virtue Stories -- App. 3. Vicious and Depraved Women -- App. 4. The Textual Matrix for the Lienu zhuan -- App. 5. Ming Transformations -- App. 6. Yin-Yang in Warring States Texts -- App. 7. The Medical Cases of Shi ji 105 -- App. 8. Occupations and Activities -- App. 9. Traditional Reign Dates -- Bibliography -- Index.
  7. Dress, sex and text in Chinese culture
    = Zhongguo yin wenhua : yizhuo nüxing yu wenzi
    Contributor: Finnane, Antonia (Hrsg.); McLaren, Anne E. (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Monash Asia Institute, Clayton, Vic.

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    Contributor: Finnane, Antonia (Hrsg.); McLaren, Anne E. (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0732611741
    Subjects: Sex role / China; Women / China / Social conditions; Feminism / China; Mode; Sprache; Frau; Geschlechtsunterschied; Frauenliteratur; Chinesisch; Massenmedien
    Scope: xxiii, 290 p., ill., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Publisher's description: "Women's dress, women's writing, women's bodies, women's work, women as portrayed by themselves and others in literature and the arts: these are among the topics addressed in this wide-ranging collection of essays written by scholars working in a number of different areas of Chinese studies. Until recently, academic studies of Chinese women inhabited the more exotic reaches of sinology. The present volume is a contribution to a body of scholarship which over the past ten years has succeeded in transforming the field."--BOOK JACKET

    Inhalt: Introduction / Antonia Finnane, Anne McLaren -- Pt. 1. Imagining the Nation: What Should Chinese Women Wear? A National Problem / Antonia Finnane ; Commercialisation and Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Shanghai / Ye Xiaoqing ; Images of Women in Popular Prints / Tanya McIntyre ; History and Other Metaphors in Chinese-Mosuo Relations Since 1956 / Christine Mathieu -- Pt. 2. Gender Encodings: Words and Writings: Writing the Female Radical: The Encoding of Women in the Writing System / Kate Burridge, Ng Bee-Chin ; Gender and the Classification of Chinese Characters / Bob Hodge, Kam Louie ; On Researching Invisible Women: Abduction and Violation in Chinese Women's Script Writing / Anne McLaren -- Pt. 3. Feminist Discources: East and West: Consolidating a Socialist Patriarchy: The Women Writers' Industry and 'Feminist' Literary Criticism / Louise Edwards ; Representing Chinese Women: Researching Women in the Chinese Cinema / Chris Berry ; Engendering Women: Taiwan's Recent Fiction by Women / Rosemary Haddon ; Women's Studies in Literature and Feminist Literary Criticism in Contemporary China / Rosemary Roberts -- Pt. 4. Western Women Look at Chinese Women: Researching Women's Lives in Contemporary China / Beverley Hooper ; Researching Women's Work and Gender Divisions of Labour in the PRC / Tamara Jacka -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
  8. <<The>> Chinese virago
    a literary theme
    Author: Wu, Yenna
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 067412572X
    Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 40
    Subjects: Women in literature; Chinese literature / History and criticism; Women / China / Social conditions
    Scope: VIII, 312 S., 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-288) and index

    Publisher's description: 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

    Inhalt: Acknowledgments. Introduction, p. 3. 1. Socio-Psychological Foundations, p. 19. 2. Archetypes and Antecedents, p. 51. 3. Condemnation, p. 89. 4. Caution and Reform, p. 125. 5. Comedy, p. 159. Notes, p. 215. Selected Bibliography, p. 267. Glossary, p. 289. Index, p. 299