Gender, continuity, and the shaping of modernity in the arts of East Asia, 16th-20th centuries / / edited by Kristen L. Chiem, Lara C. W. Blanchard.

• Superior document: Gendering the trans-Pacific world ; Volume 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Chiem, Kristen L.,; Blanchard, Lara C. W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Gendering the trans-Pacific world ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 pages).

Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Kristen L. Chiem and Lara C. W. Blanchard
• 1 Cartographies of Alterity: Shape-Shifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan / Radu Leca
• 2 Indoctrinating Female Virtue: The Social Use of Chosŏn Woodblock Prints / Nayeon Kim
• 3 Beauty under the Willow Tree: Picturing Virtuous Women in Nineteenth-Century China / Kristen L. Chiem
• 4 Skillful Means (upāya) of the Courtesan as Bodhisattva Fugen: Maruyama Ōkyo’s Lady Eguchi / Ikumi Kaminishi
• 5 The Artistic Legacy of Yōgen’in, A Mortuary Temple Sponsored by Women in Early Modern Kyoto / Elizabeth Lillehoj
• 6 Reconfiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony / Ying-chen Peng
• 7 Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History / Charlotte Horlyck
• 8 The Personal is Political: The Life and Death and Life of Na Hye-sŏk (1896–1948) / Sunglim Kim
• 9 “Civilized” Men and “Superstitious” Women: Visualizing the Hokkaido Ainu in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 / Christina M. Spiker
• Index / Kristen L. Chiem and Lara C. W. Blanchard.