Performing "nation" : : gender politics in literature, theater, and the visual arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940 / / edited by Doris Croissant, Catherine Vance Yeh, Joshua S. Mostow.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia,
• TeilnehmendeR: Croissant, Doris.; Yeh, Catherine Vance.; Mostow, Joshua S., 1957-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia ; 91.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 445 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Equality, modernity, and gender in Chinese nationalism /; Banknote design as a battlefield of gender politics and national representation in Meiji Japan /; The culturally contested student body: Nü Xuesheng at the turn of the twentieth century /; Love martyrs and love cheaters at the end of the Chinese Empire /; Gender and formation of the modern literary field in Japan: Women and the position of the novel, 1880's-1930's /; Failed modern girls in early-twentieth-century China /; Politics, art, and eroticism: The female impersonator as the national cultural symbol of republican China /; Two actresses in three acts: Gender, theater, and nationalism in modern Japan /; From Madonna to Femme Fatale: Gender play in Japanese national painting /; Nationally naked? The female nude in Japanese oil painting and posters (1890's-1920's) /; The allure of a “woman in Chinese dress”: Representation of the other in Imperial Japan /; Utagawa Shunga, Kuki’s ‘chic,’ and the construction of a national erotics in Japan /; Contributors /; Index /; Sinica Leidensia /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282399764; 9786612399763; 9047443624
• ISSN: 0169-9563
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Doris Croissant, Catherine Vance Yeh, Joshua S. Mostow.

Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan. Focusing on gender formation, the chapters explore the changing constructs of masculinities and femininities in China and Japan from the early modern up to the 1930's. Chapters focus on the dynamism that links the remodeling of traditional arts and media to the political and cultural power relations between China, Japan, and the Western world. A true tribute to multidisciplinary studies.