Intimate Memory: Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) - Hardcover

Huang, Martin W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1438468997 ISBN 13: 9781438468990

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.

In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies.

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Martin W. Huang is Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1438468997
• ISBN 13: 9781438468990
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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