Search Results - "Woman"

The death of Woman Wang / by Spence, Jonathan D.

Woman and Chinese modernity the politics of reading between West and East / by Chow, Rey

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Polygamy and sublime passion sexuality in China on the verge of modernity / by McMahon, Keith

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the male consort of the remarkable woman -- Sublime passion and the remarkable woman -- Qing can be with one and only one -- The otherworldliness of the courtesan -- The love story and civilizational crisis -- Passive polygyny in two kinds of man-child -- Fleecing the customer in Shanghai brothels of the 1890s -- Cultural destiny and polygynous love in Zou Tao's Shanghai dust -- The polygynous politics of the modern Chinese man in Nine-times cuckold -- Conclusion : the postpolygynous future.…”
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Shanghai gone domicide and defiance in a Chinese megacity / by Shao, Qin, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The Woman of a Thousand-and-one Petition -- Nightmares : Old and New -- Waving the Red Flag -- Barrack-room Lawyer -- Mr. …”
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An unfinished republic leading by word and deed in modern China / by Strand, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Republican China -- Slapping Song Jiaoren -- Speaking parts in Chinese history -- A woman's Republic -- Seeing like a citizen -- Losing a speech -- Sun Yat-sen's last words -- Conclusion: Leading and being led.…”
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Small works poverty and economic development in southwestern China / by Donaldson, John A., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…-- Roads : building connections to markets -- Migration : go east, young man (and woman) -- Tourism : joyous village life -- Coal mining : black gold -- Conclusion : the micro-oriented state, development, and poverty.…”
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Remaking Chinese cinema through the prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood / by Wang, Yiman, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The goddess : tracking the "unknown woman" from Hollywood through Shanghai to Hong Kong -- Family resemblance, class conflicts : re-version of the sisterhood singsong drama -- The love parade goes on : western-costume Cantonese opera film and the foreignizing remake -- Mr. …”
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Eminent nuns women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / by Grant, Beata, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts -- Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks -- The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang -- Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar -- Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang -- From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche -- From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong -- Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu -- From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru.…”
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Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China / by Guo, Li, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Envisioning a nascent feminine agency in Zaishengyuan (Destiny of rebirth) -- Disguised scholar, fox spirit, and moralism in Bishenghua (Blossom from the bush) -- Ethics, filial piety, and narrative sympathy in Mengyingyuan (Dream, image, destiny) -- Gender, spectatorship, and literary portraiture in Mengyingyuan -- Cross-dressing as a collective act in Xianü qunying shi (A history of women warriors) -- Illustrating a new woman in Fengliu zuiren (The valiant and the culprit) -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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Chinese concepts of privacy

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- PART V: EXPOSING PRIVACY -- Privacy and its Ill Effects in Post-Mao Urban Fiction -- Robin Visser -- The Extrication of Memory in Tie Ning's Woman Showering: Privacy and the Trap of History -- Chen Xiaoming -- PART VI: CONCLUSION -- Reflections on Privacy in China -- Stephan Feuchtwang.…”
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The inner quarters and beyond women writers from Ming through Qing /

Table of Contents: “…McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".…”
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Madame Wu Chien-Shiung : the first lady of physics research / by Tsai-Chien, Chiang

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Chinese ecocinema in the age of environmental challenge /

Table of Contents: “…In the face of developmental ruins : place attachment and its ethical claims / Xinmin Liu ; Ning Hao's Incense : a curious tale of earthly Buddhism / Xiaoping Lin ; Putting back the animals : woman-animal meme in contemporary Taiwanese ecofeminist imagination / Chia-ju Chang ; "Reconstructing the god-fearing community" : filming Tibet in the twenty-first century / Donghui He.…”
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Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China : survival strategies and judicial interventions / by Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961-

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Aching for beauty footbinding in China / by Wang, Ping, 1957-

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