NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512019
Yingzi Hu
{"title":"Nora and Other Roamers: A Dialogue between Lu Xun (1881-1936) and Eileen Chang (1920-95)","authors":"Yingzi Hu","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay stages a dialogue between Lu Xun and Eileen Chang on the figure of Nora, a global icon of the burgeoning New Woman from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Although often thought of as belonging to diametrically opposing camps – Lu Xun political and Chang apolitical, Lu Xun a sharp critic of women’s oppression and Chang a self-conscious performer of femininity in writing style and personal styling – I argue that their concerns converge more often than one would expect, in their trenchant social critique as well as in the ways their celebrated realism unfolds into allegories of modern Chinese history. At the same time, the points of their divergence also provide us a window onto the gendered positioning of each writer and their different responses to the formation of modern subjectivity. On whether Nora should leave and where she is going, the different answers given by Lu Xun and Eileen Chang illuminate the conditions, limitations and pitfalls of this gendered subject, whose ambulatory-ness serves as a foundational metaphor of her modernity and self-determination.","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"AES-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126495820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512022
Xiaofei Kang
{"title":"Religion, Gender, and the Chinese Communist Revolution","authors":"Xiaofei Kang","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"589 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123181098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512017
Julia K. Murray
{"title":"How Do Pictorial Biographies of Confucius Portray His Mother and Father?","authors":"Julia K. Murray","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Virtually all illustrations of the life of Confucius/Kongzi include a scene in which one of his parents performs a sacrifice on a hillside, and many versions also depict paranormal events associated with his birth. In most examples, the protagonist is the future sage’s young mother, Yan Zhengzai, but in a few cases she is joined or even replaced by his elderly father, Shuliang He. The variations among depictions of the events sometimes reflect different textual traditions, but social and cultural values also exert a significant influence on the pictorial treatments. As a case in point, this article analyzes a selection of Chinese examples dating from the fifteenth century to our own day, and Japanese examples from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128346569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512020
Allan H. Barr
{"title":"From “Thoughts on March 8” to “Gap” and “The Sufferings of Liping”: Mate Selection and Marriage in Three Works by Yan’an Authors","authors":"Allan H. Barr","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000During China’s war with Japan from 1937 to 1945, the Communist-controlled border regions in north China saw an influx of progressive, patriotic youth from other parts of the country, bringing these new arrivals into contact with officials and army officers in the Communist power structure. Marriage was one potential outcome of such interactions, but while offering certain advantages it was often seen as problematic, with questions raised about the motives and methods of the parties involved. Given its sensitive nature, the subject of mate choice could only briefly be explored in literary works before an ideological clampdown was imposed in the late spring and summer of 1942. This article examines the key works that addressed the issue at the time and details the criticisms that followed their publication. It begins with a close reading of the relevant passage in “Sanbajie you gan” (Thoughts on March 8), the famous essay by Ding Ling (1904-86), and goes on to consider two stories by younger Yan’an authors, Ma Jia (1910-2004) and Mo Ye (1918-86), who broached the topics of mate choice and marriage shortly before and after Ding Ling wrote her essay. Together these works, published during the relatively liberal period leading up to the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art, reveal some critical fault lines within the revolutionary coalition. To this article is appended a full translation of Mo Ye’s story “Liping de fannao” (The sufferings of Liping), which vividly depicts a young woman’s struggle to reconcile her choice of marriage partner with her self-image as a progressive woman.","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121435283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512021
K. McMahon
{"title":"Writing about the Art of Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei","authors":"K. McMahon","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"121 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116308407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512016
T. Barrett
{"title":"Literati Encomia on Embroidered Buddhist Icons, c.700-900 CE","authors":"T. Barrett","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study examines all the surviving examples of short prose pieces written in praise of embroidery depicting Buddhist objects of worship between circa 700 and 900. The process whereby they were transmitted to the present is traced wherever possible, and the main themes are indicated by means of the identification of recurrent vocabulary items. Typically, the embroideries described are said to have been created by women for the posthumous benefit of their family members, both male and female; the male writers involved, whose work was generally deemed to possess literary merit, were usually connected by family or other ties to the creators of the embroideries. One or two pieces that seem to be less typical are also discussed, though the restriction of the total size of the corpus to a score of pieces by a handful of writers makes the task of establishing the scope of the conventions observed difficult to determine. But as a genre in which men praised the cultural production of women these texts may merit further research.","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130557318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512024
G. Mathews, Yang Yang
{"title":"Gender and Life after Death in the United States, Japan, and Particularly China: Why Do Women Believe in Life after Death More than Men Do?","authors":"G. Mathews, Yang Yang","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132522072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512026
L. Edwards
{"title":"War as Culture: Merging the Martial and the Cultural with Gender in China","authors":"L. Edwards","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115537553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NAN NÜPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1163/15685268-02512028
M. Epstein
{"title":"A Companion to The Story of the Stone. A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide, written by Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-Yung","authors":"M. Epstein","doi":"10.1163/15685268-02512028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286788,"journal":{"name":"NAN NÜ","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130902956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}