Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts

by Paul Rouzer

This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 BC until 1000 AD. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite men and shows where gender and social hierarchies cross paths. Rouzer argues that when male authors articulated themselves as women, the resulting articulation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674005279
• ISBN13: 9780674005273
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"