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Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
Paul Rouzer
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Description for Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
Hardcover. This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3D; 3F; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; HBLC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 752.
This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 BC until 1000 AD. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite men and shows where gender and social hierarchies cross paths. Rouzer argues that when male authors articulated themselves as women, the resulting articulation was inevitably influenced by this act of identification. Articulated women are always located within a non-existent liminal space between ostensible object and ostensible subject, a focus of textual desire both through possession and ... Read more
This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 BC until 1000 AD. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite men and shows where gender and social hierarchies cross paths. Rouzer argues that when male authors articulated themselves as women, the resulting articulation was inevitably influenced by this act of identification. Articulated women are always located within a non-existent liminal space between ostensible object and ostensible subject, a focus of textual desire both through possession and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674005273
SKU
V9780674005273
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About Paul Rouzer
Paul Rouzer is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Minnesota.
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