Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction
(Book #197 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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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: Marriage Bonds to Awaken the World, Dream of the Red Chamber, A Country Codger's Words of Exposure, Flowers in the Mirror , and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674005120
ISBN13:9780674005129
Release Date:June 2001
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:353 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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