Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction

Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction Epstein Maram Wydawca: Harvard University, Asia Center Data wydania: 2001 ISBN: 9780674005129 Liczba stron: Format: 229 x 152 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives.