Fei-Wen Liu

Gendered Words

Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China

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Produktbeschreibung

Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan Province in south China, this book explores the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing "women's script" known as nushu.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780190210403
• ISBN-10: 0190210400
• Artikelnr.: 47864209

Autorenporträt

Fei-wen Liu is Associate Research Fellow and Museum Curator at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. She has conducted fieldwork in rural south China on the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing "women's script" known as nushu since 1992. She has published in many flagship journals of the concerning fields: Journal of Asian Studies, Modern China, American Ethnologist, Journal of American Folklore, etc.; and has produced a nushu documentary entitled Calling and Recalling: The Sentiments of Nushu.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
1. Discovery and Encounter
2. Text and Practice
3. Tang Baozhen: I Sing and Therefore I am and Become
4. He Yanxin: Calling and Recalling the Sentiments of Nushu
5. Hu Xinkui: Child Bride, Party Cadre, Housewife
6. Hu Meiyue: At the Crossroads between Tradition and Modernity
7. Conclusions: Subjectivity, Expression and Prospects
Glossary
Bibliography