Presence and presentation : women in the Chinese literati tradition
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Presence and presentation : women in the Chinese literati tradition
（The new Middle Ages）
Macmillan, c1999
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Women in the Chinese literati tradition
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This collection of essays focuses on the lives of Chinese women before the 10th century. An array of scholars examine historical, religious, and literary texts of medieval China (mainly from the 3rd to the 10th centuries) discovering topics which are surprisingly modern. A princess dies of a miscarriage as a result of marital violence, marriages are made to form political alliances, and an imperial consort is blamed for natural disasters. Other essays reveal the precarious lives of female entertainers and palace serving women, wifely procuring for famous husbands, self mutilation in the name of cultural virtues, and a mother's journey deeper into hell for her son's ability to achieve Buddhahood. The essayists scrutinize mostly male crafted documents but from the perspectives of the women who lived during this time.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- S.J. Mou - Sex Crimes, Marital Violence and Collective Responsibilities: Women in Early Medieval Chinese Criminal Cases
- Jen-der Lee - Writing Virtues With Their Bodies: Mutilations in the Two Tang Histories' Biographies of Women
- S. J. Mou - The 'Strange' in Southern Dynasty Narratives of Female Death
- B.Spade - 'Smell Good and Get a Job': How Taoist Women were Verified and Legitimated During the Tang Dynasty
- S. Cahill - Ji-Entertainers in Tang Chang'an
- V. Xiong - Father in Heaven, Mother in Hell: Gender Politics in the Creation and Transformation of Mu-lien's Mother
- S. S. Lai - Bonds of Certain Consequence: The Personal Responses to Concubinage of Wang Anshi and Sima Guang
- D. J. Wyatt - Women in China's Frontier Politics: He qin: Political Marriage Between Chinese Imperial Princesses and Nomadic Rulers of Inner Asia
- N. Chia - Serving Women in the Ming Palace
- B. Hua Hsieh - Notes on Contributors - Index
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