Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity
eBook - ePub

Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity

Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity

Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film

About this book

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

Crossing Borders and Confounding Identity advances our understanding of the diversity of Chinese women's experiences and achievements, from the Han Dynasty to the present. With a particular emphasis on literature and the arts, the chapters offer insights into the work of current Chinese women artists as well as literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of women and women's issues. Taken together, they provide new perspectives on Chinese women, their lived experiences and fictional representations, across a broad spectrum of literature, theater, film, and the visual arts. Accessible to nonspecialists and general readers, this book will also be a valuable resource for faculty who teach Asian studies courses in history and in the humanities, as well as for students in interdisciplinary Asian studies courses.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Emily Georgiana Kemp: An Early Twentieth-Century Traveler’s Perspective on the Heart-Mind of China
  10. Chapter 2 Women’s Agency at the Close of Ming Dynasty China: Vulnerability, Violation, and Vengeance in Ling Mengchu’s Vernacular Short Stories
  11. Chapter 3 A Flight of Cultural Imagination in Heian Japan: The Image of Yang Guifei in Genji monagatori and “Chang hen ge”
  12. Chapter 4 Women Generals and Martial Maidens: China’s Warrior Women in History, Literature, and Film
  13. Chapter 5 Women in Male Roles: Cross-Dressed Actresses in Early Twentieth-Century China
  14. Chapter 6 Pavilion of Women: Gender Politics and Global Cultural Translatability
  15. Chapter 7 Gendered Screens: Women, Space, and Social Transformation in the Works of Contemporary Chinese Female Filmmakers
  16. Chapter 8 Women in Chinese Visual Art over the Past Century
  17. Chapter 9 “Lessons for Women”: From The Good Earth to Leftover Women
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover