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Intimate memory : gender and mourning in late Imperial China
Title:
Intimate memory : gender and mourning in late Imperial China

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Author:
Huang, Martin W., 1960- author.
ISBN:
9781438468990
Publication Information:
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Physical Description:
224 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Contents:
Introduction -- The secularization of memory -- Survivor's guilt -- Hagiographical memory -- Wounded manhood -- Fragments of anxiety -- Remembering concubines -- Circulating grief -- Remembering sisters -- Epilogue : A wife's remembrances.
Abstract:
"In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memories, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies."--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-220) and index.
Field 805:
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