| Description |
1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword / Harriet T. Zurndorfer -- Male Friendship in Ming China: An Introduction / Martin W. Huang -- Friendship through Fourteenth-Century Fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao and Ding Hfenian / Anne Gerritsen -- Music and Male Bonding in Ming China / Joseph S.C. Lam -- A Friendship of Metal and Stone: Representations of Fan Juqing and Zhang Yuanbo in the Ming Dynasty / Kimberly Besio -- Male Friendship and Jiangxue (Philosophical Debates) in Sixteenth-Century China / Martin W. Huang |
| Summary |
This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called five cardinal human relationships. Why the cult of friendship in Ming China? How was male friendship theorized, practiced and represented during that period? These are some of the questions the current volume deals with. Coming from different disciplines (history, musicology and liter |
| Notes |
"The content of this volume is a reprint of vol. 9, issue 1 (2007) of Nan Nü, men, women and gender in China"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Chinese |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Male friendship -- China -- History
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Men -- China -- History
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Friendship.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Friendship.
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Friendship
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Male friendship
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Men
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Manlig vänskap -- historia -- Kina.
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Huang, Martin W., 1960-
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| ISBN |
9789047419587 |
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9047419588 |
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