Description: Competing Discourses : Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction, Hardcover by Epstein, Maram, ISBN 0674005120, ISBN-13 9780674005129, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives.
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Book Title: Competing Discourses : Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Me
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Competing Discourses : Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Subject: Asian / Chinese, Subjects & Themes / Women
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2001
Item Weight: 23.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Maram Epstein
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
Format: Hardcover
