Transgressive typologies : constructions of gender and power in early Tang China / Rebecca Doran
- Bib ID:
- 7338776
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Doran, Rebecca, 1982-, author
- Description:
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- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2016
- ©2016
- viii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780674970588 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
- 0674970586 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 103.
- Summary:
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"Offers a new understanding of the powerful Chinese women leaders of the Tang era within their literary-historical contexts, and also delves into critical questions about the relationship between Chinese historiography, reception-history, and the process of image-making and cultural construction."--
- Full contents:
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- Female rule and its representation : gender, paradigm, and historical narrative
- (Self)expression and gendered legitimacy : projection of identity in literature of the late seventh century through the Jinglong era
- Ritual, signs, and the interpretation of female power
- Building power : symbolic architecture, conspicuous consumption and rule by women
- Gender anarchy and the rhetorical overthrow of female rule.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-249) and index.
- Text in English with excerpts in Chinese.
- Subject:
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- Women -- China -- History -- To 1500
- Women -- Political activity -- China -- History -- To 1500
- Politics and literature -- China -- History -- To 1500
- Women -- China -- Identity -- History
- Politics and government
- Politics and literature
- Tang Dynasty (China)
- Women
- Women -- Identity
- Women -- Political activity
- China -- Politics and government -- 581-907
- China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- China
- Genre/Form:
- History
- Copyright:
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