Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction

by Maram Epstein

In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674005120
• ISBN13: 9780674005129
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"