Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in the Red Chamber Dream

(Book #31 in the Sinica Leidensia Series)

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Men & Women in Qing China is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth-century Chinese novel of manners, The Red Chamber Dream, or The Story of the Stone. Drawing on feminist literary critical methods, it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity, including themes such as bisexuality, motherhood, virginity and purity, and gender and power. Its central aim is to...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0824824687

ISBN13:9780824824686

Release Date:March 2001

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in the Red Chamber Dream

(Book #31 in the Sinica Leidensia Series)

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