Competing Discourses : Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
ISBN-10
0674005120
ISBN-13
9780674005129
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Imprint
Harvard University, Asia Center
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 1st, 2001
Print length
340 Pages
Weight
671 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 3.20 cms
Product Classification:
Anthologies (non-poetry)Literary theoryLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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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.
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