Hughes Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity

Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9216-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Asian Studies Development

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, Cheryl C. D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Preface
Cheryl C. D. Hughes

Introduction
Emma Jinhua Teng

1. Emily Georgiana Kemp: An Early Twentieth-Century Traveler’s Perspective on the Heart-Mind of China
Dona M. Cady

2. Women’s Agency at the Close of Ming Dynasty China: Vulnerability, Violation, and Vengeance in Ling Mengchu’s Vernacular Short Stories
Marla Hoffman Lunderberg

3. A Flight of Cultural Imagination in Heian Japan: The Image of Yang Guifei in Genji monagatori and “Chang hen ge”
Catherine Ryu

4. Women Generals and Martial Maidens: China’s Warrior Women in History, Literature, and Film
Cheryl C. D. Hughes

5. Women in Male Roles: Cross-Dressed Actresses in Early Twentieth-Century China
Laura Xie

6. Pavilion of Women: Gender Politics and Global Cultural Translatability
Jinhua Li

7. Gendered Screens: Women, Space, and Social Transformation in the Works of Contemporary Chinese Female Filmmakers
Yanhong Zhu

8. Women in Chinese Visual Art over the Past Century
Shelley Drake Hawks

9. “Lessons for Women”: From The Good Earth to Leftover Women
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cheryl C. D. Hughes is Professor Emerita at Tulsa Community College. She is the author of Katherine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Story of an American Catholic Saint.