Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott

By Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott

Representing an remarkable collaboration between foreign students from Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this quantity rewrites the heritage of East Asia by means of rethinking the contentious dating among Confucianism and girls. The authors speak about the absence of girls within the Confucian canonical culture and think about the presence of girls in politics, relations, schooling, and paintings in premodern China, Korea, and Japan.

What emerges is an idea of Confucianism that's dynamic rather than monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As lecturers, moms, writers, and rulers, ladies have been energetic brokers during this approach. Neither rebels nor sufferers, those ladies embraced facets of respectable norms whereas resisting others. The essays current a robust picture of what it intended to be lady and to stay a woman's lifestyles in numerous social settings and historic conditions. difficult the normal inspiration of Confucianism as an oppressive culture that victimized ladies, this provocative ebook unearths it as a contemporary build that doesn't replicate the social and cultural histories of East Asia prior to the 19th century.

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By Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott

Representing an remarkable collaboration between foreign students from Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this quantity rewrites the heritage of East Asia by means of rethinking the contentious dating among Confucianism and girls. The authors speak about the absence of girls within the Confucian canonical culture and think about the presence of girls in politics, relations, schooling, and paintings in premodern China, Korea, and Japan.

What emerges is an idea of Confucianism that's dynamic rather than monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As lecturers, moms, writers, and rulers, ladies have been energetic brokers during this approach. Neither rebels nor sufferers, those ladies embraced facets of respectable norms whereas resisting others. The essays current a robust picture of what it intended to be lady and to stay a woman's lifestyles in numerous social settings and historic conditions. difficult the normal inspiration of Confucianism as an oppressive culture that victimized ladies, this provocative ebook unearths it as a contemporary build that doesn't replicate the social and cultural histories of East Asia prior to the 19th century.

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Originally published in , this famous essay has had an indelible impact on the fields of Asian women’s history, as chapters of this book attest. . David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames have pondered the philosophical issues involved in conceptualizing premodern and non-Western selves. See especially their Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (Albany: State University of New York Press, ). . See, for instance, the recent and very useful overview by Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to Confucianism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ).

David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames have pondered the philosophical issues involved in conceptualizing premodern and non-Western selves. See especially their Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (Albany: State University of New York Press, ). . See, for instance, the recent and very useful overview by Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to Confucianism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ). . Lionel Jensen, Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (Durham: Duke University Press, ).

A second official channel for civilizing society in Korea and China was the civil service examination. In China it was the sole gateway to officialdom from the Song dynasty to , serving as a key venue for the shaping and contesting of cultural norms. It also acquired rather exclusive prestige in Korea, but despite its continued practice from the tenth to nineteenth centuries, it functioned more within the confines of the elite population. Curiously, the examination system never took root in Japan, where ascription, status, and cliency relations remained key.

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