Transgressive Typologies: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China

Doran, Rebecca (著)

著者

Doran, Rebecca (著)

出版年月日

2016

ページ

260

出版者

Harvard University Asia Center

出版サイト

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/

出版地

Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]

シリーズ

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

シリーズナンバー

103

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Rebecca Doran is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Miami.

抄録

The exceptionally powerful Chinese women leaders of the late seventh and early eighth centuries—including Wu Zhao, the Taiping and Anle princesses, Empress Wei, and Shangguan Wan’er—though quite prominent in the Chinese cultural tradition, remain elusive and often misunderstood or essentialized throughout history. Transgressive Typologies utilizes a new, multidisciplinary approach to understand how these figures’ historical identities are constructed in the mainstream secular literary-historical tradition and to analyze the points of view that inform these constructions.

Using close readings and rereadings of primary texts written in medieval China through later imperial times, this study elucidates narrative typologies and motifs associated with these women to explore how their power is rhetorically framed, gendered, and ultimately deemed transgressive. Rebecca Doran offers a new understanding of major female figures of the Tang era within their literary-historical contexts, and delves into critical questions about the relationship between Chinese historiography, reception-history, and the process of image-making and cultural construction.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Female Rule and Its Representation: Gender, Paradigm, and Historical Narrative
2. (Self)Expression and Gendered Legitimacy: Projection of Identity in Literature of the Late Seventh Century through the Jinglong Era
3. Ritual, Signs, and the Interpretation of Female Power
4. Building Power: Symbolic Architecture, Conspicuous Consumption, and Rule by Women
5. Gender Anarchy and the Rhetorical Overthrow of Female Rule
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

ISBN

9780674970588 (pbk); 0674970586 (pbk); 9781684170876 (eb); 1684170877 (eb)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1dnnbg8

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