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Author:   Beverly Jo Bossler
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780295994703

ISBN 10:   0295994703
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Terminology Chronology Introduction Part One: Early Modern Evolutions 1. Les Noces Chinoises / Ann Waltner 2. The Control of Female Energies / Guotong Li 3. Collecting Masculinity / Yulian Wu 4. Writing Love / Weijing Lu Part Two: “Cloistered Ladies” to New Women 5. “Media-Savvy” Gentlewomen of the 1870’s and Beyond / Ellen Widmer 6. The Fate of the Late Imperial “Talented Woman” / Joan Judge 7. Moving to Shanghai / Yan Wang Part Three: Radicalism and Ruptures 8. The Life of a Slogan / Emily Honig 9. Bad Transmission / Gail Hershatter Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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""This anthology sets a new benchmark for the creative and rigorous use of a broad range of sources to extend the scope of gender-focused enquiry in Chinese late imperial history. It will be read with benefit by students and scholars of comparative modernities, comparative gender issues, as well as Chinese social and political history."" -- Anne E. McLaren * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies * ""This collection of groundbreaking essays delivers enough inspiration not only for expanding gender-related historic studies in new directions, but also for questioning some of the well-established assumptions within the academic field, as well as popular gender stereotypes."" -- Justyna Jaguścik * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques * ""Insightful and provoocative . . . This edited volume is an enlightening and delightful reading for a wide range of scholars."" -- Yu Zhang * New Books Asia *

This anthology sets a new benchmark for the creative and rigorous use of a broad range of sources to extend the scope of gender-focused enquiry in Chinese late imperial history. It will be read with benefit by students and scholars of comparative modernities, comparative gender issues, as well as Chinese social and political history. -- Anne E. McLaren * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies * This collection of groundbreaking essays delivers enough inspiration not only for expanding gender-related historic studies in new directions, but also for questioning some of the well-established assumptions within the academic field, as well as popular gender stereotypes. -- Justyna Jaguscik * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques * Insightful and provoocative . . . This edited volume is an enlightening and delightful reading for a wide range of scholars. -- Yu Zhang * New Books Asia *

Insightful and provoocative . . . This edited volume is an enlightening and delightful reading for a wide range of scholars. -- Yu Zhang * New Books Asia * This collection of groundbreaking essays delivers enough inspiration not only for expanding gender-related historic studies in new directions, but also for questioning some of the well-established assumptions within the academic field, as well as popular gender stereotypes. -- Justyna Jaguscik * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques * This anthology sets a new benchmark for the creative and rigorous use of a broad range of sources to extend the scope of gender-focused enquiry in Chinese late imperial history. It will be read with benefit by students and scholars of comparative modernities, comparative gender issues, as well as Chinese social and political history. -- Anne E. McLaren * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *

This collection of groundbreaking essays delivers enough inspiration not only for expanding gender-related historic studies in new directions, but also for questioning some of the well-established assumptions within the academic field, as well as popular gender stereotypes. -- Justyna Jaguscik * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques * This anthology sets a new benchmark for the creative and rigorous use of a broad range of sources to extend the scope of gender-focused enquiry in Chinese late imperial history. It will be read with benefit by students and scholars of comparative modernities, comparative gender issues, as well as Chinese social and political history. -- Anne E. McLaren * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *

Author Information

Beverly Bossler is professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of is Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity in China, 1000–1400 and Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and the State in Sung China (960–1279). Other contributors are Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Joan Judge, Guotong Li, Weijing Lu, Ann Waltner, Yan Wang, Ellen Widmer, and Yulian Wu.

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