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10%OFFJoan Judge - The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China - 9780804773263 - V9780804773263
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The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China

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Description for The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 522.

This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own past and the modern West through the lens of the woman question. Writers and activists who engaged in debates over this question variously appropriated biographies of women—a genre with a 2,000-year history in China and a new political salience in the early twentieth century. Judge maps the ways these individuals used historical Chinese and modern Western women's biographies to promote competing visions of female virtue, talent, and heroism, and, ultimately, to advance competing evaluations of China's ritual teachings, cultural heritage, and national future. She concludes ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804773263
SKU
V9780804773263
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Joan Judge
Joan Judge is Associate Professor of Humanities and Women's Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Print and Politics: 'Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford, 1996) and of numerous articles on China at the turn of the twentieth century.

Reviews for The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China
"Judge's study of the 'woman question' does justice to its dynamism, complexity and transitional character. She has established a new benchmark in historical studies of the very late Qing."
Antonia Finnane
China Quarterly
"Joan Judge's The Precious Raft of History does exactly what a raft is supposed to do. It rescues history, in this case the history ... Read more

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