Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature (Women and Gender in China Studies)

Li, Wai-yee (EDT)

Brill（2024/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 330 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004693371

Full Description

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.

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