Gender and friendship in Chinese literature / edited by Wai-yee Li.
"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...
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Brill,
[2024]
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| Series: | Women and gender in China studies ;
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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.