Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction - Harvard East Asian Monographs - Maram Epstein - Books - Harvard University, Asia Center - 9780674005129 - June 1, 2001
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Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction - Harvard East Asian Monographs


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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.


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

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