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Competing Discourses

- Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction

About Competing Discourses

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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780674005129
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 340
  • Published:
  • May 31, 2001
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x32 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 671 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 11, 2024

Description of Competing Discourses

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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