ISBN:
9780520231054
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (353 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan
DDC:
305.4/0951
Keywords:
Confucianism ; Social aspects
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Women ; China ; History
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Women ; Japan ; History
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Women ; Korea ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. What emerges is a concept of Confucianism that is dynamic instead of monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As teachers, mothers, writers, and rulers, wo
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES; PREFACE; NOTES ON CONVENTIONS; COMPARATIVE TIME CHART FOR CHINA, KOREA, AND JAPAN; Introduction; PART I. SCRIPTS OF MALE DOMINANCE; 1. The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan; 2. The Last Classical Female Sovereign: Koken-Shotoku Tenno; 3. Representation of Females in Twelfth-Century Korean Historiography; 4. The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in China; PART II. PROPAGATING CONFUCIAN VIRTUES; 5. Women and the Transmission of Confucian Culture in Song China; 6. Propagating Female Virtues in Choson Korea
Description / Table of Contents:
7. State Indoctrination of Filial Piety in Tokugawa Japan: Sons and Daughters in the Official Records of Filial PietyPART III. FEMALE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE; 8. Norms and Texts for Women's Education in Tokugawa Japan; 9. Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China; PART IV. CORPOREAL AND TEXTUAL EXPRESSIONS OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY; 10. Discipline and Transformation: Body and Practice in the Lives of Daoist Holy Women of Tang China; 11. Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in Korean Narratives; GLOSSARY; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; X
Description / Table of Contents:
YZ; RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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