This first book-length study of gender relations in the Lower Yangzi region during the High Qing era (c. 1683-1839) challenges enduring late-nineteenth-century perspectives that emphasized the oppression and subjugation of Chinese women. Placing women at the center of the High Qing era shows how gender relations shaped the economic, political, social, and cultural changes of the age, and gives us a sense of what women felt and believed, and what they actually did, during this period.
Most analyses of gender in High Qing times have focused on literature and on the writings of the elite; this book broadens the scope of inquiry to include women's work in the farm household, courtesan entertainment, and women’s participation in ritual observances and religion. In dealing with literature, it shows how women's poetry can serve the historian as well as the literary critic, drawing on one of the first anthologies of women's writing compiled by a woman to examine not only literary sensibilities and intimate emotions, but also political judgments, moral values, and social relations.
After an introductory chapter that evaluates the historiography of Chinese women, the book surveys High Qing history, charts the female life course, and discusses women's place in writing and learning, in entertainment, at work, and in religious practice. The concluding chapter returns to broad historiographic questions about where women figure in space and time and why we can no longer write histories that ignore them.
2 有用 廖芜 2016-04-01 09:04:42
Realize the difference between prescription and reality. So we need to center on real women's experience and their words. And a whole new picture about how they internalize and also appropriate the st... Realize the difference between prescription and reality. So we need to center on real women's experience and their words. And a whole new picture about how they internalize and also appropriate the state and scholar's texts can be revealed. I am really attracted by the power of close reading and reconstruction these days!!!!!!! (展开)
1 有用 狂而无依 2017-02-06 06:54:34
当时应当是颇有启发性的著作
0 有用 司岱朴 2007-12-09 20:04:47
2007年12月 GSCAS
0 有用 锄禾 2012-07-31 01:52:45
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8571 定宜庄评介 http://xiangyata.net/data/articles/c01/752.html
0 有用 離微 2017-02-05 09:45:06
Susan Mann
0 有用 千夜 2021-05-16 17:41:20
试图涵盖的范围很广,从上层知识女性到底层劳动妇女,从文学到劳动和宗教,但相当松散,论点不太明确。
0 有用 你才是神经病 2019-04-02 19:41:32
Realize the difference between prescription and reality. So we need to center on real women's experience and their words. And a whole new picture about how they internalize and also appropriate the st... Realize the difference between prescription and reality. So we need to center on real women's experience and their words. And a whole new picture about how they internalize and also appropriate the state and scholar's texts can be revealed. I am really attracted by the power of close reading and reconstruction these days!!!!!!! (展开)
0 有用 Gillian 2017-02-15 13:52:03
第一代將性別研究視角帶入史學研究。應該與Dothothy Ko的書一起看,兩本書一方面在時間段上是延續關係,另一方面在觀點上有差異,這就恰恰體現出Mann所要強調的Ming-Qing transition中 gender的變化。作者用女性自己的材料寫女性的故事是好的,只是我很好奇所謂女詩人寫的詩歌在風格上或題材上與男詩人有明顯區別嗎?#列文森
1 有用 狂而无依 2017-02-06 06:54:34
当时应当是颇有启发性的著作
0 有用 離微 2017-02-05 09:45:06
Susan Mann