Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China 9780824863739

Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us abo

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English Pages 296 Year 2006

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1. Engendering the Loyal Minister
1. From True Man to Castrato: Early Models and Later Ramifications
2. From Faithful Wife to Whore: The Minister-Concubine Complex in Ming Politics
3. The Case of Xu Wei: A Frustrated Hero or a Weeping Widow?
4. Manhood and Nationhood: Chaste Women and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Part 2. Heroes and Other Competing Models
5. From Yingxiong to Haohan: Models of Masculinity in San’guo yanyi and Shuihu zhuan
6. Reconstructing Haohan in Three Novels from the Sui-Tang Romance Cycle
7. Effeminacy, Femininity, and Male-Male Passions
8. Romantic Heroes in Yesou puyan and Sanfen meng quanzhuan
Part 3. What a Man Ought to Be
9. Ideals and Fears in Prescriptive Literature
Epilogue: Masculinity and Modernity
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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