Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature -

Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature

Wai-yee Li (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
313 Seiten
2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69337-1 (ISBN)
149,95 inkl. MwSt
This volume, edited by Wai-yee Li, explores how gender enriches the discourse on friendship and how the focus on friendship introduces new perspectives on gender roles and gender boundaries.
Canvasing a range of materials that include early tales of exemplarity, medieval song lyrics, Ming-Qing poetry and plucked rhymes, twentieth century writings about revolutionaries, opera stars, missionaries, and contemporary fiction, this volume illustrates the discourse and representation of friendship in which women gain agency and participate in broader arguments about ethics, politics, and religious transcendence. Friendship prompts reflections on gender roles, becomes the venue of literary self-consciousness, and heightens the sense of literary community. Gender and community function in new ways through the public dimension of friendship, and most importantly, the intersections of gender and friendship enable us to rethink other relationships.

Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. Her recent books include The Problem and Peril of Things (Columbia, 2022), A Topsy-Turvy World (Columbia, 2023), and an annotated translation of The Peach Blossom Fan (Oxford, 2024).

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Table

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: Why Gender and Friendship?

 Wai-yee Li



Part I: Friendship and Female Agency



1 On the Difficulty of Friendship: the Case of Li Qingzhao

 Ronald Egan

2 In the Absence of Discourse: Articulating Female Friendship in Late Imperial China

 Grace S. Fong

3 Laying Claim to an Autonomous Self: Women’s Friendships in the Nineteenth-Century tanci Novel Mengying yuan

 Maram Epstein



Part 2: The Publicity of Friendship: Gender and Community



4 How to Fight with Your Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community

 Hu Ying

5 Gender and Friendship in the Staging of a Star: Mei Lanfang

 Catherine V. Yeh

6 Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton and Zhang Zhujun

 Ellen Widmer



PART 3: Rethinking Relationships



7 Hermits and Their Wives: Gender and Friendship in Early Chinese Texts

 Yiqun Zhou

8 Literary Negotiations: Friendship in the World of Late Ming Courtesans

 Wai-yee Li

9 Love or Lust Redux: on the Pure Relationship in Chinese Literature

 Haiyan Lee



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.10.2024
Reihe/Serie Women and Gender in China Studies ; 15
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 90-04-69337-8 / 9004693378
ISBN-13 978-90-04-69337-1 / 9789004693371
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