Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in the Red Chamber Dream

by Louise P. Edwards and Edwards

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Men & Women in Qing China is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth-century Chinese novel of manners, The Red Chamber Dream, or The Story of the Stone. Drawing on feminist literary critical methods, it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity, including themes such as bisexuality, motherhood, virginity and purity, and gender and power. Its central aim is to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824824687
• ISBN13: 9780824824686
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"