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Polygamy and Sublime Passion
Author | : Keith McMahon |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2009-11-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824833763 |
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For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the 'polygynous male'. This title introduces a fresh concept, 'passive polygamy', to explain the unusual number of Qing stories in which women take charge of a man's desires, turning him into an instrument of female will.
Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth Century China
Author | : Yu Zhang |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2017-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498557863 |
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Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction (a type of lyrical narrative) from nineteenth-century China, Meng ying yuan (1843), Yu xuan cao (1894), and Jing zhong zhuan (1895), as interrelated texts composed by three generation of members from one extended gentry family in South China. Based on the framework of family bonds, this book uses the three tanci works, authored by a mother, her daughter, and a nephew, to examine the history of how the changing aesthetics of tanci developed over China’s turbulent nineteenth century. It also demonstrates how the three writers used the genre of tanci to blur the boundaries of orthodox Confucian norms, in order to depict the evolving nature of gendered power relations at the dawn of China’s modernity.
Woman Rules Within
Author | : Jessica Dvorak Moyer |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2020-08-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789004437920 |
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In Woman Rules Within: Domestic Space and Genre in Qing Vernacular Literature, Jessica Dvorak Moyer compares depictions of women and the household in texts across a range of late imperial genres, offering a new understanding of vernacularization in Qing literature.
Homesickness
Author | : Carlos Rojas |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674286979 |
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Carlos Rojas focuses on the trope of “homesickness” in China—discomfort caused not by a longing for home but by excessive proximity to it. This inverse homesickness marks a process of movement away from the home, conceived of as spaces associated with the nation, family, and individual body, and gives rise to the possibility of long-term health.
Unmooring the Komagata Maru
Author | : Rita Dhamoon,Davina Bhandar,Renisa Mawani,Satwinder Kaur Bains |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780774860680 |
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In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voyage. By situating South Asian Canadian history within a global-imperial context, the contributors offer a critical reading of Canadian multiculturalism through past events and their commemoration. A hundred years later, the voyage of the Komagata Maru has yet to reach its conclusion.
Wanton Women in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004340626 |
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In Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature, the essay contributors explore how from the late Ming onward images of sexually transgressive women developed across a range of genres as women and men addressed tensions between past ideals and lived worlds.
Sexuality in China
Author | : Howard Chiang |
Publsiher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295743486 |
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What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives by addressing diverse topics such as polygamy, pornography, free love, eugenics, sexology, crimes of passion, homosexuality, intersexuality, transsexuality, masculine anxiety, sex work, and HIV/AIDS. Following a loose chronological sequence, the chapters examine revealing historical moments in which human desire and power dynamics came into play. Collectively, the contributors undertake a necessary historiographic intervention by reconsidering Western categorizations and exploring Chinese understandings of sexuality and erotic orientation.
Marriage and Civilization
Author | : William Tucker |
Publsiher | : Regnery Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781621572015 |
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Marriage built civilization. Will its collapse lead to our downfall? In Marriage and Civilization, Tucker takes readers on a journey through the history of the human race to demonstrate how a pattern of life-long, monogamous pairings has enabled humans to build modern civilization. Drawing extensively on biological, anthropological, and historical evidence, Tucker makes the case that marriage is not only a desirable institution for societies, it’s actually the bedrock of civilization. Tucker also examines America (and the world)’s current marriage crisis, and the factors that have led to the decline of marriage, the dramatic rise of divorce, and the epidemic of single parenthood. He draws bold predictions about what could happen to American society of marriage collapses entirely, and he sketches out the threat from polygamous groups such as fundamental Muslim sects. Polygamy, Tucker argues, not only generates discontent and disorder within a society, but promotes violence against others. Monogamous marriage is vital not only to our domestic well-being, but our survival in the face of violent enemies.