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Intimate Memory
Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China
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Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 232 pages |
| Release Date: April 2018 |
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-1-4384-6899-0
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Price: $32.95
Paperback - 232 pages |
| Release Date: January 2019 |
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-1-4384-6900-3
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Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.
In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies.
“This book is a welcome addition to the literature on mourning in late imperial China.” — Monumenta Serica
“…the works Huang describes offer us invaluable glimpses of the domestic lives of elite officials in late imperial China.” — CHOICE
Martin W. Huang is Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Secularization of Memory
2. Survivor’s Guilt
3. Hagiographical Memory
4. Wounded Manhood
5. Fragments of Anxiety
6. Remembering Concubines
7. Circulating Grief
8. Remembering Sisters
Epilogue: A Wife’s Remembrances
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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4-6899-0/4-6900-3(CA/JMBG/MC)
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