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Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction

Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction

Zamperini, Paola

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral LawSexuality

ISBN10: 900417978X
ISBN13: 9789004179783
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 28 2010
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from innocence to sex-work and beyond. This crucial angle allows the author to paint a picture of gender identity, sexuality, and desire that is at once unitary and multi-layered, and that comes to illuminate some of the major themes in the construction of Chinese modernity.

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