Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature /

Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature /

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 friend...

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Other Authors: Li, Wai-yee (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Women and Gender in China Studies ; 15.

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Chinese literature > History and criticism.
Friendship in literature.

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Call Number: PL2275.F73

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.