Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

Name: Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan
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ISBN: 9780520231382

ISBN-10: 0520231384

ISBN-13: 9780520231382

Edition: 2010

Authors: Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan Piggott

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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, women were active agents in this process. Neither rebels nor victims, these women embraced aspects of…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations and Tables


Preface


Notes on Conventions


Comparative Time Chart for China, Korea, and Japan


Introduction



Scripts Of Male Dominance



The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan




The Last Classical Female Sovereign: KQken-ShQtoku TennQ




Representation of Females in Twelfth-Century Korean Historiography




The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in China




Propagating Confucian Virtues



Women and the Transmission of Confucian Culture in Song China




Propagating Female Virtues in ChosPn Korea




State Indoctrination of Filial Piety in Tokugawa Japan: Sons and Daughters in the Official Records of Filial Piety




Female Education In Practice



Norms and Texts for Women's Education in Tokugawa Japan




Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China




Corporeal and Textual Expressions of Female Subjectivity



Discipline and Transformation: Body and Practice in the Lives of Daoist Holy Women of Tang China




Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in Korean Narratives



Glossary


Recommendations for Further Reading


List of Contributors


Index