Queering Gender Sexuality And Becoming Human In Qing Dynasty Zhiguai
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Queering Gender Sexuality And Becoming Human In Qing Dynasty Zhiguai
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Author : Thomas William Whyke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-23
Queering Gender Sexuality And Becoming Human In Qing Dynasty Zhiguai written by Thomas William Whyke and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers queer readings of Chinese Qing Dynasty zhiguai, ‘strange tales’, a genre featuring supernatural characters and events. In a unique approach interweaving Chinese philosophies alongside critical theories, this book explores tales which speak to contemporary debates around identity and power. Depictions of porous boundaries between humans and animals, transformations between genders, diverse sexualities, and contextually unusual masculinities and femininities, lend such tales to queer readings. Unlike previous scholarship on characters as allegorical figures or stories as morality tales, this book draws on queer theory, animal studies, feminism, and Deleuzian philosophy, to explore the ‘strange’ and its potential for social critique. Examining such tales enriches the scope of historic queer world literatures, offering culturally situated stories of relationships, desires, and ways of being, that both speak to and challenge contemporary debates.
Proceedings Of The 2024 International Conference On Social Sciences And Educational Development Icossed 2024
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Author : Peng Dou
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-03-28
Proceedings Of The 2024 International Conference On Social Sciences And Educational Development Icossed 2024 written by Peng Dou and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-28 with Social Science categories.
This is an open access book. 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development(ICSSED 2024) will be held on on December 21-22, 2024 in Cangzhou, China. ICSSED 2024 aims to bring together scholars, educators, and policymakers to discuss the dynamic interplay between educational advancements and social sciences. As our world faces unprecedented challenges and transformative changes, the role of education in shaping societies becomes ever more critical. The conference will delve into educational theories, practical applications and innovative approaches. ICSSED 2024 focuses more explicitly on global trends and the digitization of education to explore how emerging technologies and innovations in teaching are addressing existing educational inequities and enhancing the learning experience in diverse contexts.
Cinematically Rendering Confucius
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Author : David H. Fleming
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-02-24
Cinematically Rendering Confucius written by David H. Fleming and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-24 with Philosophy categories.
Cinematically Rendering Confucius marks the first book-length enquiry into China’s first two big screen treatments of arguably the best-known and most influential thinker in world history: Confucius. By interweaving methods drawn from Film Studies, Comparative Philosophy, and Media Archaeology in response to broader calls to deepen and thicken the scope and purview of film philosophical enquiry, this trailblazing book grounds Fei Mu’s 1940 patriotic art film Kǒng Fūzǐ and Hu Mei's 2010 “Huallywood” blockbuster Kǒngzǐ as pre- and postsocialist examples of Chinese politico-philosophical filmmaking that straddle the PRC’s revolutionary Marxist socio-political experiment. After exploring the geopolitics surrounding why Confucius has been historically included and excluded from the European classification of “philosopher” and addressing the difficulties that entering into “Chinese Thought” presents to non-natives, the book’s first half undertakes a deep dive into the history of (re)mediating the Confucian image-imagination. Arguing that Confucius might be a form of film philosopher avant la lettre, we thereafter explore repetitions and differences surrounding the ever-changing treatment and representation of Confucius on-screen—concluding with a look at the latest AI-infused theory-film When Marx Met Confucius (2023).
The Emerging Lesbian
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Author : Tze-Lan D. Sang
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-01-15
The Emerging Lesbian written by Tze-Lan D. Sang and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-15 with Social Science categories.
In early twentieth-century China, age-old traditions of homosocial and homoerotic relationships between women suddenly became an issue of widespread public concern. Discussed formerly in terms of friendship and sisterhood, these relationships came to be associated with feminism, on the one hand, and psychobiological perversion, on the other—a radical shift whose origins have long been unclear. In this first ever book-length study of Chinese lesbians, Tze-lan D. Sang convincingly ties the debate over female same-sex love in China to the emergence of Chinese modernity. As women's participation in social, economic, and political affairs grew, Sang argues, so too did the societal significance of their romantic and sexual relations. Focusing especially on literature by or about women-preferring women, Sang traces the history of female same-sex relations in China from the late imperial period (1600-1911) through the Republican era (1912-1949). She ends by examining the reemergence of public debate on lesbians in China after Mao and in Taiwan after martial law, including the important roles played by globalization and identity politics.
The Fragile Scholar
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Author : Geng Song
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
The Fragile Scholar written by Geng Song and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the fragile scholar (caizi) in late imperial Chinese fiction and drama. The book is an original contribution to the study of the construction of masculinity in the Chinese context from a comparative perspective (Euro-American). Its central thesis is that the concept of "masculinity" in pre-modern China was conceived in the network of hierarchical social and political power in a homosocial context rather than in opposition to "woman." In other words, gender discourse was more power-based than sex-based in pre-modern China, and Chinese masculinity was androgynous in nature. The author explains how the caizi discourse embodied the mediation between elite culture and popular culture by giving voice to the desire, fantasy, wants and tastes of urbanites.
On Their Own Terms
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
On Their Own Terms written by Benjamin A. Elman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Historian Of The Strange
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Author : Judith T. Zeitlin
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1993
Historian Of The Strange written by Judith T. Zeitlin and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Collections categories.
This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.
Zibuyu What The Master Would Not Discuss According To Yuan Mei 1716 1798 A Collection Of Supernatural Stories 2 Vols
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Author : Paolo Santangelo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Zibuyu What The Master Would Not Discuss According To Yuan Mei 1716 1798 A Collection Of Supernatural Stories 2 Vols written by Paolo Santangelo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with History categories.
Although the preface says that the tales in this collection of supernatural stories should not be taken seriously and just aim to dispel boredom, Zibuyu is a work with different reading levels, which allows to uncover several deep trends, taboos and fantasies of late imperial intellectual circles. Disgust, surprise and laughter are constantly evoked, by continually attracting and repulsing the reader. Yuan Mei’s approach guides the reader to an adventure in the dangerous recesses of the self. It is a sort of allegoric fantastic reflection on the relative and polyphonic essence of human beings, the multiplicity of selves from psychological perception, and a challenge to the traditional biographical and historical perspective for the unreliability of destiny. Dreams, madness, delusions and other extreme cognitive and affective conditions, abnormal events, gods and spirits, and the dark world of death lead to a reversal of perspective and destroy the Apollonian vision of the social-centered Confucian orthodoxy. With introduction, translation and comments.
Homoerotic Sensibilities In Late Imperial China
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Author : Cuncun Wu
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Homoerotic Sensibilities In Late Imperial China written by Cuncun Wu and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
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Redefining Propaganda In Modern China
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Author : James Farley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-19
Redefining Propaganda In Modern China written by James Farley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-19 with History categories.
Usage of the political keyword 'propaganda' by the Chinese Communist Party has changed and expanded over time. These changes have been masked by strong continuities spanning periods in the history of the People's Republic of China from the Mao Zedong era (1949–76) to the new era of Xi Jinping (2012–present). Redefining Propaganda in Modern China builds on the work of earlier scholars to revisit the central issue of how propaganda has been understood within the Communist Party system. What did propaganda mean across successive eras? What were its institutions and functions? What were its main techniques and themes? What can we learn about popular consciousness as a result? In answering these questions, the contributors to this volume draw on a range of historical, cultural studies, propaganda studies and comparative politics approaches. Their work captures the sweep of propaganda – its appearance in everyday life, as well as during extraordinary moments of mobilization (and demobilization), and its systematic continuities and discontinuities from the perspective of policy-makers, bureaucratic functionaries and artists. More localized and granular case studies are balanced against deep readings and cross-cutting interpretive essays, which place the history of the People's Republic of China within broader temporal and comparative frames. Addressing a vital aspect of Chinese Communist Party authority, this book is meant to provide a timely and comprehensive update on what propaganda has meant ideologically, operationally, aesthetically and in terms of social experience.