The Precious Raft of History : The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China

Judge, Joan

Stanford University Press（2008/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780804755894
• DDC分類 305.40951

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008.

Full Description

This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own past and the modern West through the lens of the woman question. Writers and activists who engaged in debates over this question variously appropriated biographies of women—a genre with a 2,000-year history in China and a new political salience in the early twentieth century. Judge maps the ways these individuals used historical Chinese and modern Western women's biographies to promote competing visions of female virtue, talent, and heroism, and, ultimately, to advance competing evaluations of China's ritual teachings, cultural heritage, and national future. She concludes by applying the hermeneutics of historical change she develops for the turn of the twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first century, as women's issues continue to foreground Chinese conceptions of the past, the West, and the nation.

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations xxx Acknowledgments xxx Introduction: Women and Temporality 1 Part One The Regime of Feminine Virtue 000 1. Chaste Women: Sacred, Praiseworthy, or Misguided 000 2. Public Women: Licentious or Evolved 000 Part Two History, Nation, and Female Talent 000 3. Women of Talent: Valorized and Repudiated 000 4. Wise Mothers and Mothers of Citizens 000 Part Three New Global Hierarchies of Female Heroism 000 5. The Chinese Woman Warrior and the Western Heroine 000 6. The New-Style Heroine and the Paradoxes of Feminine Time 000 Conclusion: From the Turn of the Twentieth Century to the Turn of the Twenty-First 000 Glossary and Character List 000 Abbreviations 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000