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 Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xii)   (147K)
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    • Contents
    • List Of Figures
    • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction - Different worlds of discourse: Transformations of gender and genre in Late Qing and early republican China (1-28)   (298K)
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    • I. Transformations Of Gender Roles
    • II. Transformations Of Genres
    • III. The Production Of Gender And Genres In The New Print Media
  • Wang Zhaoyuan (1763–1851) and the erasure of “talented women” By Liang Qichao (29-56) by Harriet T. Zurndorfer   (2M)
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    • Introduction: The Invention Of China’S Feminine Past
    • Nationalist Sentiment And The Debasement Of Chinese Women’S Literary Heritage
    • Locating Wang Zhaoyuan In The Contours Of Mid-Qing History
    • A Brief Narrative Of Wang Zhaoyuan’S Life History And Writings
    • Wang Zhaoyuan In Retrospect
    • The Marginalization Of Wang Zhaoyuan: On The Road To Oblivion
    • Liang Qichao’S Erasure Of Wang Zhaoyuan And The Preservation Of The Qing Past
  • “Tossing the brush”? Wu Zhiying (1868–1934) and the uses of calligraphy (57-86) by Hu Ying   (3M)
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    • Building An Artistic Reputation
    • Performing Scripts, Performing Roles
    • Art As Public Protest
    • Literati-Shanghai Modern
    • Art In Meditation
  • Reconfiguring time, space, and subjectivity: Lü Bicheng’s travel writings on Mount Lu (87-114) by Grace S. Fong   (3M)
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    • Introduction
    • Inscribing Mount Lu As Cultural Space
    • Inscribing Mount Lu As Foreign Space
    • Shifting Temporalities: The Intersection Of The Local And Global On Mount Lu
    • Desire And Subjectivity On Mount Lu
    • Conclusion
  • From “Cainü” to “Nü Jiaoxi”: Female normal schools and the transformation of women’s education in the late Qing Period, 1895–1911 (115-146) by Xiaoping Cong   (313K)
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    • I. Women’S Education In Late Imperial Society: The Roots Of Modern Female Education
    • II. New Factors In Women’S Education: Missionary Schools And Overseas Students
    • III. Women’S Education In Diversity: 1895–1906
    • IV. From Mothers To Teachers Of Citizens: The State And Women’S Normal Schools, 1907–11
    • V. Conclusion
  • Mediated imaginings: Biographies of western women and their japanese sources in late Qing China (147-166) by Joan Judge   (2M)
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    • The Western Exemplars
    • The Japanese Sources
    • Textual Transformations
    • Conclusion
  • Female assassins, civilization, and technology in Late Qing literature and culture (167-196) by Jing Tsu   (386K)
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    • I. Women’S Fiction And The Heroism Of Destruction
    • II. The Stone Of Goddess Nüwa: Science And Female Chivalry
    • III. Female Jail Flower: From Violence To Political Constructivism
    • IV. Concluding Remarks
  • Patriotism versus love: The central dilemma of Zhan Kai’s novel Bihai Zhu (197-226) by Ellen Widmer   (2M)
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    • Introduction
    • The Plot Of Bihai Zhu
    • Situating The Action In Real Time
    • Bihai Zhu And Zhan’S Other Writings
    • Bihai Zhu And The Issue Of Female Education
    • Bihai Zhu And The Dilemma Of Qing
    • Bihai Zhu And Zhan’S Use Of The Novel Form
    • Conclusion
  • Women in Shenbaoguan publications, 1872–90 (227-256) by Rudolf G. Wagner   (363K)
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    • Introduction
    • The Shenbaoguan And Women’S Issues
    • Women In The Shenbaoguan Literary Periodicals
    • Compilations By And About Chinese Women
    • Women As Readers
    • Publishing Works About, By, And For Women: A Double Agenda Of The Shenbaoguan
  • The mother Nü Xuebao versus the daughter Nü Xuebao: Generational differences between 1898 and 1902 women reformers (257-292) by Nanxiu Qian   (5M)
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    • I. The Mother Nü Xuebao: Recreation Of The Cainü Tradition
    • II. The Daughter Nü xuebao:Valorization of the Nüjie s‚ (Heroine) Ambition
    • III. Some Tentative Explanations Of Women Reformers’ Generational Differences
  • Tianyi Bao and He Zhen’s views on “women’s revolution” (293-314) by Xia Xiaohong   (1M)
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    • He Zhen And Tianyi Bao
    • To Practice Absolute Equality Between The Sexes
    • To Topple Government And Suppress Male Dominance
  • Male gaze/female students: Late Qing education for women as Portrayedi in Beijing pictorials, 1902–08 (315-348) by Chen Pingyuan   (4M)
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    • Pictorials And Women’S Education
    • A Vibrant Scenery Of Women And The Hidden Desires Of Men
    • Juxtaposing Female Portraiture With News Illustrations
  • The construction of gender and genre in the 1910s new media: Evidence from the ladies’ journal (349-382) by Siao-Chen Hu   (1M)
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    • Promoting A Literature Of Their Own—The “Literary Garden” In The Ladies’ Journal
    • “I Aspire To Follow Lin Weilu And Become A Woman Novelist”—A New Direction Of Women’S Literary Practice
    • Toiletries, Flowers, And Women’S History—Literary Cultivation, Historical Construction, And Transcendental Pursuit
  • Suggested bibliography (383-402)   (489K)
  • About the contributors (403-406)   (364K)
  • Index (407-417)   (150K)