Transgressive Typologies: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China 0674970586, 9780674970588

The exceptionally powerful Chinese women leaders of the late seventh and early eighth centuries--including Wu Zhao, the

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Transgressive Typologies: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China
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Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses marked themselves as a dis

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During the Tang dynasty (618-907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened t

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Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections

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Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections

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Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity

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This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the

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Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity

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Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores Chinese political thought during the centuries surroundi

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This book is a path-breaking study of print culture in early modern China. It argues that printing with both woodblocks

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This nuanced study traces how Chinese came to view death as an opportunity to fashion and convey social identities and m

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