The Fox Spirit The Stone Maiden And Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China
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The Fox Spirit The Stone Maiden And Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China
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Author : Matthew H. Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-19
The Fox Spirit The Stone Maiden And Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China written by Matthew H. Sommer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with History categories.
In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. “Stone maidens”—women deemed physically incapable of vaginal intercourse—might depart from families or marriages to become Buddhist or Daoist nuns. Anatomical males who presented as women sometimes took a conventionally female occupation such as midwife, faith healer, or even medium to a fox spirit. Yet they were often punished harshly for the crime of “masquerading in women’s attire,” suspected of sexual predation, even when they had lived peacefully in their communities for many years. Exploring these histories and many more, this book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing. He considers a range of transgender experiences, illuminating how certain forms of gender transgression were sanctioned in particular social contexts and penalized in others. Sommer scrutinizes the ways Qing legal authorities and literati writers represented and understood gender-nonconforming people and practices, contrasting official ideology with popular mentalities. An unprecedented account of China’s transgender histories, this book also sheds new light on a range of themes in Ming and Qing law, religion, medicine, literature, and culture.
Redreaming The Renaissance
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Author : Mary Lindemann
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-17
Redreaming The Renaissance written by Mary Lindemann and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-17 with History categories.
Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always distinguish between the historical and literary significance of the texts they read and produced. Literature here is broadly conceived to include not only belles lettres, but also other forms of artful writing that flourished in the period, including philosophical writings on dreams and prophecy; life-writing; religious debates; menu descriptions and other food writing; diaries, news reports, ballads, and protest songs; and scientific discussions. The twelve essays in this collection examine the role that the volume’s dedicatee has played in bringing the disciplines of history and literary studies into provocative conversation, as well as the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
Polyandry And Wife Selling In Qing Dynasty China
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Author : Matthew H. Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Polyandry And Wife Selling In Qing Dynasty China written by Matthew H. Sommer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with History categories.
Polyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband." Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible adjudication of routine cases in the local courts.
The Origins Of The Choson Dynasty
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Author : John B. Duncan
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
The Origins Of The Choson Dynasty written by John B. Duncan and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with History categories.
The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional Korea.
Beggar Your Neighbours
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Author : Joseph Hanlon
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1986
Beggar Your Neighbours written by Joseph Hanlon and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Africa, Southern categories.
Joseph Hanlon pieces together the details of apartheid South Africa's military attacks on its neighbours, and relates them to the control the apartheid system exercises thorugh its economic power and control of the transport system in the region. North America: Indiana U Press
Golden Dreams Of Borneo
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Author : Alex Ling
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-03-13
Golden Dreams Of Borneo written by Alex Ling and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-13 with Fiction categories.
Dreams of Gold Dreams of Power These drove men and women to seek their fortune in Sarawak. They came from Britain to carve a future on virgin soil from China - to escape grinding poverty. They fought and traded, lived and died in the struggle to fulfil their dreams. Some lost their lives to bloodthirsty headhunters, or in the disease-ridden swamps and trackless jungles of the interior; some survived to make their fortune. Chinese, British, Malays rubbed shoulders with fearsome Sea Dayaks, and nomads in the hunter-gatherer stage of evolution. The Steam Age met the Stone Age in this exotic, untouched land. Cultures clashed in a multiracial society. Charles Brooke, enigmatic White Rajah of Sarawak, was a man of vision, a man with a mission to tame the natives first, then to protect them from exploitation. His dream was to take them gently towards modern civilisation, to bring them the rewards of self-development. He was paternalistic but loving, a truly benevolent despot. Dreams of Adventure Dreams of Romance Stephen Young, a young graduate, arrives in Sarawak in 1898. Seduced by its virgin beauty steaming jungle, majestic mountains and noble savages he stays. Erotic intrigue, passion, violence and warfare surround him. His goal is to survive these with his head and his heart intact.
True To Her Word
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Author : Weijing Lu
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-06
True To Her Word written by Weijing Lu 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 2008-02-06 with History categories.
This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the "faithful maiden" cult in late imperial China (1368–1911). Across the empire, an increasing number of young women or "faithful maidens," defied their parents' wishes and chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiancé or killed themselves to join their fiancé in death. The book analyzes the familial conflicts, government policies, ideological controversies, and personal emotions surrounding the cult. Concentrating on the dramatic acts of spirit wedding and suicide, the faithful maidens' unique code of conduct, and the extraordinary life journey of "virgin mothers," Lu documents the ideological, psychological, cultural, and economic aspects of these young women's mentality and behavior, and the implications of this behavior for their families and the broader society. The book's narrative of the faithful maiden cult interweaves late imperial political, cultural, social and intellectual history, thus, providing a new window onto the history of the late imperial period.
In The Shadow Of The Sun
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Author : Canadian Museum of Civilization
language : en
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
In The Shadow Of The Sun written by Canadian Museum of Civilization and has been published by University of Ottawa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This volume makes available, in English, most of the essays written to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s exhibition of the same name. Not included, are the essays by Gisela Hoffman, Bernadette Driscoll and Elizabeth McLuhan and the exhibition catalogue section which appeared in the original German publication. This book provides an overview of the evolution of contemporary Native Canadian art. Regional styles as well as individual artistic styles are discussed and the various subjects, themes and techniques reflected in the works are examined.
Myth And Magic
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Author : Joy Kuhn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Myth And Magic written by Joy Kuhn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Sculpture categories.
Sex Law And Society In Late Imperial China
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Author : Matthew Harvey Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2000
Sex Law And Society In Late Imperial China written by Matthew Harvey Sommer 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 2000 with Social Science categories.
This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status.