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Fables for the Patriarchs by Jowen R. Tung
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Fables for the Patriarchs

Gender Politics in Tang Discourse
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Exploring issues of gender in Tang-dynasty literature and culture, the author draws on a comprehensive range of historical, literary and social texts to unravel the complex mechanisms of one of the world's oldest patriarchal systems. The author reveals the profound damage inflicted by the masculine state ideology on its subjects by illuminating the problems of male sexuality under the hovering phallus of the emperor, the construct of male and female psyches within the pseudo-monogamous household, the logic of the collective unconscious in the literati's writings, and a female tradition desperately trapped inside the law of the father. The author poses urgent questions about a civilisation that builds itself upon the sacrifice of human lives and arrives at a rather dark interpretation of the Tang, for many the epitome of the Chinese empire. The book moves beyond the confines of gender studies to propose a heightened agenda for feminist studies, which the author argues now stands at a critical conjecture.

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Jowen R. Tung is assistant professor in the Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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June 7th, 2000
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  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
224
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148x228x14
ISBN-13
9780847695133
Product ID
2065202

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