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Obscene Things : Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei, Paperback by Ding, Naifei, ...
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- Book Title
- Obscene Things : Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei
- Item Length
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- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 2002
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- English
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- Literary Criticism
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- Subjects & Themes / Women, Asian / General
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- 25.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings Jing Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jing Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this text in particular on which Ding focuses. Challenging the preconceptions of earlier scholarship, she highlights the fundamental misogyny inherent in Jing Ping Mei and demonstrates how traditional biases - particularly masculine biases - continue to inform the concerns of modern criticism and sexual politics.The story of a seductive bondmaid - concubine, sexual opportunism and domestic intrigue, death, and adultery, Jing Ping Mei has often been critiqued based on the coherence of the text itself. Concentrating instead on the processes of reading and on the social meaning of this novel, Ding looks at the various ways the tale has been received since its first dissemination, particularly by critiquing the interpretations offered by seventeenth-century Ming literati and by twentieth-century scholars. Confronting the gender politics of this "pornographic" text, she troubles the boundaries between pre-modern and modern readings by engaging residual and emergent Chinese gender and hierarchic ideologies.By arguing from the standpoint of feminism, Obscene Things will contribute to studies of Chinese literature, Asian studies, feminism, politics of sexuality, and cultural studies.
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Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822329166
ISBN-13
9780822329169
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2194534
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Book Title
Obscene Things : Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Women, Asian / General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
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Pl2698.H73c5337 2002
Reviews
"Ding's reading of Jin Ping Mei is unique and extremely important. By reading this novel as a cumulative accretion of text and commentary and as a cultural icon, she shows how all of us who read it from an aesthetic perspective are implicated in covering up its disturbing and hatefully misogynist core. This is a true coup."-Maram Epstein, University of Oregon, "Those who read Ding's investigation will never look at critical interpretations of Chinese fiction with the same complacency again."-Robert E. Hegel, author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China, "Ding's reading of Jin Ping Mei is unique and extremely important. By reading this novel as a cumulative accretion of text and commentary and as a cultural icon, she shows how all of us who read it from an aesthetic perspective are implicated in covering up its disturbing and hatefully misogynist core. This is a true coup."- Maram Epstein, University of Oregon"Those who read Ding's investigation will never look at critical interpretations of Chinese fiction with the same complacency again."-Robert E. Hegel, author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China, "Those who read Ding's investigation will never look at critical interpretations of Chinese fiction with the same complacency again."--Robert E. Hegel, author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China, “In this absorbing study of the multiple lives of a literary classic that is also a popular pornographic text, Naifei Ding steals across the border between cultural studies and feminist/queer literary criticism. Bringing a gendered social history of modern print culture in China into a ‘porous intimacy’ with both a critique of interpretive power and a feminist ‘counter-ethics’ of reading, Obscene Things is a scholarly work of exceptional creativity. Ding herself is a wonderful storyteller, and her critical narration of the fortunes of Jin Ping Mei will inspire anyone concerned with the how of studying historical modalities of gender, sexuality, status, and cultural power.�-Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, “Those who read Ding’s investigation will never look at critical interpretations of Chinese fiction with the same complacency again.�-Robert E. Hegel, author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China, "In this absorbing study of the multiple lives of a literary classic that is also a popular pornographic text, Naifei Ding steals across the border between cultural studies and feminist/queer literary criticism. Bringing a gendered social history of modern print culture in China into a 'porous intimacy' with both a critique of interpretive power and a feminist 'counter-ethics' of reading, Obscene Things is a scholarly work of exceptional creativity. Ding herself is a wonderful storyteller, and her critical narration of the fortunes of Jin Ping Mei will inspire anyone concerned with the how of studying historical modalities of gender, sexuality, status, and cultural power."-Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, “Ding’s reading of Jin Ping Mei is unique and extremely important. By reading this novel as a cumulative accretion of text and commentary and as a cultural icon, she shows how all of us who read it from an aesthetic perspective are implicated in covering up its disturbing and hatefully misogynist core. This is a true coup.�-Maram Epstein, University of Oregon, "Ding's reading of Jin Ping Mei is unique and extremely important. By reading this novel as a cumulative accretion of text and commentary and as a cultural icon, she shows how all of us who read it from an aesthetic perspective are implicated in covering up its disturbing and hatefully misogynist core. This is a true coup."- Maram Epstein, University of Oregon "Those who read Ding's investigation will never look at critical interpretations of Chinese fiction with the same complacency again."-Robert E. Hegel, author of Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China, "Ding's reading of Jin Ping Mei is unique and extremely important. By reading this novel as a cumulative accretion of text and commentary and as a cultural icon, she shows how all of us who read it from an aesthetic perspective are implicated in covering up its disturbing and hatefully misogynist core. This is a true coup."-- Maram Epstein, University of Oregon, "In this absorbing study of the multiple lives of a literary classic that is also a popular pornographic text, Naifei Ding steals across the border between cultural studies and feminist/queer literary criticism. Bringing a gendered social history of modern print culture in China into a 'porous intimacy' with both a critique of interpretive power and a feminist 'counter-ethics' of reading, Obscene Things is a scholarly work of exceptional creativity. Ding herself is a wonderful storyteller, and her critical narration of the fortunes of Jin Ping Mei will inspire anyone concerned with the how of studying historical modalities of gender, sexuality, status, and cultural power."--Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Preface Part One: Practices 1. Jin -ology 2. The Manic Preface: Jin Shengtan's (1608-1661) Shuihu zhuan 3. A Cure for Melancholy: Yuan Hongdao (1558-1610) and Qifa ( Seven Stimuli ) 4. Tears of Resentment: Zhang Zhupo's (1670-1698) Jin Ping Mei Part Two: Intervention 5. Seduction: Tiger and Yinfu 6. Red Shoes, Foot Bindings, and the Swing 7. A Cat, a Dog, and the Killing of Livestock 8. Very Close to Yinfu and Enu; or, How Prefaces Matter for Jin Ping Mei (1695) and Enu Shu (Taipei, 1995) Notes Glossary Works Cited Index
Copyright Date
2002
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2001-008589
Dewey Decimal
895.1/346
Dewey Edition
21
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