Song dynasty figures of longing and desire : : gender and interiority in Chinese painting and poetry / / by Lara C.W. Blanchard.

In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire , Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their auth...

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Superior document:Women and gender in China studies ; Volume 10
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Women and gender in China studies ; Volume 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (333 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Gendered Subjectivity and Representing Interiority
  • 2 Political Interpretations of Desire
  • 3 Male Audience and Authorship: Projecting Desire and Longing onto the Female Figure
  • 4 The Female Audience: Modeling Idealized Femininity
  • Conclusion: Interiority and the Value of Connection
  • Works Cited
  • Index.