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Pages: 297
Authors: Martin W. Huang
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and
Intimate Memory
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Martin W. Huang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the questi
Male Friendship in Ming China
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Martin Huang
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-01 - Publisher: BRILL

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This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unpr
Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables
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In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlearned classes
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Keith McMahon
Categories: Family & Relationships
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Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of