Gender and Chinese History: Transformative Encounters

ISBN 10: 0295994703 / ISBN 13: 9780295994703

Published by University of Washington Press June 2015, 2015

About this Item

used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender and Chinese History: Transformative Encounters
• Publisher: University of Washington Press June 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295994703
• ISBN 13: 9780295994703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • HIST china

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Synopsis

Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for thousands of years, living cloistered, uneducated lives separate from the larger social and cultural world, until they were liberated by political upheavals in the twentieth century. Rich scholarship on gender in China has since complicated the picture of women in Chinese society, revealing the roles women have played as active agents in their families, businesses, and artistic communities. The essays in this collection go further by assessing the ways in which the study of gender has changed our understanding of Chinese history and showing how the study of gender in China challenges our assumptions about China, the past, and gender itself.

About the Author

Beverly Bossler is professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of is Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity in China, 1000–1400 and Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and the State in Sung China (960–1279). Other contributors are Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Joan Judge, Guotong Li, Weijing Lu, Ann Waltner, Yan Wang, Ellen Widmer, and Yulian Wu.