Lost bodies : prostitution and masculinity in Chinese fiction

Lost bodies : prostitution and masculinity in Chinese fiction / by Paola Zamperini.

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 journe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zamperini, Paola
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Women and gender in China studies ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Prostitution > China > History.
Prostitutes > China > History.
Prostitutes in literature > History.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Prostitutes in literature
Prostitutes
Prostitution
China
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Paradise lost : the fantastic childhood of a courtesan to be
  • Lost and found : the socialization of the prostituted body
  • Family matters : patterns of solidarity and discord in the brothel
  • Nobody's son : prostitution and the disintegration of the family romance
  • Taking flight poverty, sickness, and death
  • Epilogue : back to the future : nostalgia and prostitution.

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