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Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction - Harvard East Asian Monographs Maram Epstein
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Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction - Harvard East Asian Monographs
Maram Epstein
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.
340 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 1, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674005129 |
| Publishers | Harvard University, Asia Center |
| Pages | 340 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 32 mm · 671 g |