TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bossler,Beverly Jo
ED  - Credo Reference (Firm),
TI  - Gender & Chinese history: transformative encounters 
SN  - 9781785397554
AV  - HQ1767 .G457 2015
U1  - 304.420951 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Seattle [Washington]
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Women
KW  - China
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sex role
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Acknowledgments -- Note on terminology -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I. Early modern evolutions: Chapter 1. Les noces chinoises: an eighteenth-century French representation of a Chinese wedding procession / Ann Waltner; Chapter 2. The control of female energies: gender and ethnicity on China's southeast coast / Ann Waltner; Chapter 3. Collecting masculinity: merchants and gender performance in eighteenth-century China / Yulian Wu; Chapter 4. Writing love: the Heming Ji by Wang Zhaoyuan and Hao Yixing / Weijing Lu -- Part II. "Cloistered ladies" to new women: Chapter 5. “Media-savvy” gentlewomen of the 1870s and beyond / Ellen Widmer; Chapter 6. The fate of the late imperial "talented woman": gender and historical change in early-twentieth-century China / Joan Judge; Chapter 7. Moving to Shanghai: urban women of means in the late Qing / Yan Wang -- Part III. Radicalism and ruptures: Chapter 8. The Life of a Slogan / Emily Honig; Chapter 9. Bad Transmission / Gail Hershatter -- Glossary of Chinese characters -- Bibliography -- List of contributors; Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
N2  - Rich scholarship on gender in China has since complicated the picture of women in Chinese society, revealing the roles women have played as active agents in their families, businesses, and artistic communities. The essays in this collection go further by assessing the ways in which the study of gender has changed our understanding of Chinese history and showing how the study of gender in China challenges our assumptions about China, the past, and gender itself
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