Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity
Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2023
280 pages
978-1-4384-9216-2 (ISBN)
Description
Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 22
Total Illustrations: 22
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-9216-2 (9781438492162)
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Cheryl C. D. Hughes
Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity
Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
Book
08/2023
State University of New York Press
€41.70
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Cheryl C. D. Hughes
Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity
Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
Book
02/2023
State University of New York Press
€108.10
Shipment within 10-20 days
Person
Cheryl C. D. Hughes is Professor Emerita at Tulsa Community College. She is the author of Katherine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Story of an American Catholic Saint.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Cheryl C. D. Hughes
Introduction
Emma Jinhua Teng
1. Emily Georgiana Kemp: An Early Twentieth-Century Traveler's Perspective on the Heart-Mind of China
Dona M. Cady
2. Women's Agency at the Close of Ming Dynasty China: Vulnerability, Violation, and Vengeance in Ling Mengchu's Vernacular Short Stories
Marla Hoffman Lunderberg
3. A Flight of Cultural Imagination in Heian Japan: The Image of Yang Guifei in Genji monagatori and "Chang hen ge"
Catherine Ryu
4. Women Generals and Martial Maidens: China's Warrior Women in History, Literature, and Film
Cheryl C. D. Hughes
5. Women in Male Roles: Cross-Dressed Actresses in Early Twentieth-Century China
Laura Xie
6. Pavilion of Women: Gender Politics and Global Cultural Translatability
Jinhua Li
7. Gendered Screens: Women, Space, and Social Transformation in the Works of Contemporary Chinese Female Filmmakers
Yanhong Zhu
8. Women in Chinese Visual Art over the Past Century
Shelley Drake Hawks
9. "Lessons for Women": From The Good Earth to Leftover Women
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
Index
Acknowledgments
Preface
Cheryl C. D. Hughes
Introduction
Emma Jinhua Teng
1. Emily Georgiana Kemp: An Early Twentieth-Century Traveler's Perspective on the Heart-Mind of China
Dona M. Cady
2. Women's Agency at the Close of Ming Dynasty China: Vulnerability, Violation, and Vengeance in Ling Mengchu's Vernacular Short Stories
Marla Hoffman Lunderberg
3. A Flight of Cultural Imagination in Heian Japan: The Image of Yang Guifei in Genji monagatori and "Chang hen ge"
Catherine Ryu
4. Women Generals and Martial Maidens: China's Warrior Women in History, Literature, and Film
Cheryl C. D. Hughes
5. Women in Male Roles: Cross-Dressed Actresses in Early Twentieth-Century China
Laura Xie
6. Pavilion of Women: Gender Politics and Global Cultural Translatability
Jinhua Li
7. Gendered Screens: Women, Space, and Social Transformation in the Works of Contemporary Chinese Female Filmmakers
Yanhong Zhu
8. Women in Chinese Visual Art over the Past Century
Shelley Drake Hawks
9. "Lessons for Women": From The Good Earth to Leftover Women
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
Index
