Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

by Kim, Elaine H.

• ISBN13: 9780520231054
• ISBN10: 0520231058
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES	vii
PREFACE	xi
NOTES ON CONVENTIONS	xiii
COMPARATIVE TIME CHART FOR CHINA, KOREA, AND JAPAN	xiv
Introduction	1	(26)
PART I. SCRIPTS OF MALE DOMINANCE
I. The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan
Hiroko Sekiguchi	27	(20)
2. The Last Classical Female Sovereign: Kõken-Shõtoku Tennõ
Joan R. Piggott	47	(28)
3. Representation of Females in Twelfth-Century Korean Historiography
Hai-soon Lee	75	(22)
4. The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in China
Joseph S. C. Lam	97	(26)
PART II. PROPAGATING CONFUCIAN VIRTUES
5. Women and the Transmission of Confucian Culture in Song China
Jian Zang	123	(19)
6. Propagating Female Virtues in Chosõn Korea
Martin Deuchler	142	(28)
7. State Indoctrination of Filial Piety in Tokugawa Japan: Sons and Daughters in the Official Records of Filial Piety
Noriko Sugano	170	(23)
PART III. FEMALE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE
8. Norms and Texts for Women's Education in Tokugawa Japan
Martha C. Tocco	193	(26)
9. Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China
Fangqin Du and Susan Mann	219	(32)
PART IV. CORPOREAL AND TEXTUAL. EXPRESSIONS OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY
10. Discipline and Transformation: Body and Practice in the Lives of Daoist Holy Women of Tang China
Suzanne E. Cahill	251	(28)
11. Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in Korean Narratives
JaHyun Kim Haboush	279	(26)
GLOSSARY	305	(8)
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING	313	(4)
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	317	(4)
INDEX	321