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Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Martin W. Huang
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-23 - Publisher: BRILL

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"In this new study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely re
Transmutations of Desire
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Qiancheng Li
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-15 - Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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In the West, love occupies center stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or the economic life. We may observe a similar development in Chin
Disgraceful Matters
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Janet Theiss
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-10 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity—such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book e
Male Friendship in Ming China
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Martin Huang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-01 - Publisher: BRILL

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This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unpr
Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Martin W. Huang
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and