Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004179783)

Vendor: Paola Zamperini
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$173.00
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Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction

$173.00

Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction

$173.00
Format: Hardcover
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This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from innocence to sex-work and beyond. This crucial angle allows the author to paint a picture of gender identity, sexuality, and desire that is at once unitary and multi-layered, and that comes to illuminate some of the major themes in the construction of Chinese modernity.

Author: Paola Zamperini
ISBN-10: 900417978X
ISBN-13: 9789004179783
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2010
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.50w x 0.90d
By Paola Zamperini
By Paola Zamperini
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Paola Zamperini, Ph.D. in Chinese Literature and Women and Gender Studies (1999), is Assistant Professor of Chinese literature at Amherst College. She has published extensively on Ming and Qing fiction, and is currently at work on her new book project, Losing It. Gambling in Chinese Literature.

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