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Men and Women in Qing China
Gender in The Red Chamber Dream
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English
Published/Copyright:
1994
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Men and Women in Qing China is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth century Chinese novel of manners, The Red Chamber Dream or The Story of the Stone. Drawing on feminist literary critical methods it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity, including themes such as bisexuality, motherhood, virginity and purity, and gender and power. Its central aim is to challenge the common assumption that the novel represents some form of early Chinese feminism by examining the text in conjunction with historical data.
The book will be especially important to those interested in issues of gender in China, the history of Chinese literary criticism and the application of feminist theory to the Asian text.
The book will be especially important to those interested in issues of gender in China, the history of Chinese literary criticism and the application of feminist theory to the Asian text.
Author / Editor information
Louise P. Edwards, Ph.D. (1993, Griffith University) held a postdoctoral fellowship at Queensland University and currently lectures in Asian Studies at Australian Catholic University. Publications include Bibliography of English Translations and Critiques of Contemporary Chinese Fiction 1945-1992 co-authored with Kam Louie.
Reviews
'The author [...] demonstrates a great familiarity with the Qing novel and a large knowledge of the scientific Chinese literature...'
Paolo Santangelo, Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie, 1995.
'Her work is important for bringing Western feminist theory to bear on our understanding of China's greatest novel. ...[a] thoughtful and provocative study.'
Paul S. Ropp, The China Quarterly, 1995.
'...a very interesting chronicle of the interpretative vagaries to which extra-literary upheavels can give rise.'
Ellen Widmer, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1995.
Paolo Santangelo, Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie, 1995.
'Her work is important for bringing Western feminist theory to bear on our understanding of China's greatest novel. ...[a] thoughtful and provocative study.'
Paul S. Ropp, The China Quarterly, 1995.
'...a very interesting chronicle of the interpretative vagaries to which extra-literary upheavels can give rise.'
Ellen Widmer, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1995.
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September 13, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9789004482715
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181
eBook ISBN:
9789004482715
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in issues of gender in Chinese society, History of Late Imperial China, the application of feminist theory to Chinese texts or simply scholars and students of Chinese fiction.
