Precarious Peripheries
Gender from the Margins of China
First Edition
The construction and imagination of China's margins – ethnic, political, socio-cultural, geographical, religious – has long engrossed China scholars, from anthropological works such as William Skinner's classic study of historical geography and the macro region model, to travel writers from Marco Polo to San Mao, to ethnographies of Chinese minorities and new Qing histories.
In recent years, academic attention has widened its scope to new margins including environmental histories of China’s politically contested borders, and the projection of China’s soft power in contemporary science fiction that claims space as the newest frontier of the Sinosphere. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of gender in imagining and creating China’s shifting centers and peripheries.
What and where are these margins and what role does gender play in their construction and imagination? Who are the inhabitants of the margins: minorities, women, religious groups, itinerants, disabled people and the poor? In what ways does gender condition their experience of the peripheral spaces in which they operate? What are the social and gendered implications of traversing these boundaries – personal, political or physical? How do marginal actors negotiate their place at the borders and what is the impact of their positioning and perspectives on the very conception of Chineseness? A gendered perspective can better help scholars to transverse and dissect the borders of China, historically, socially, politically and geographically, and throw new light onto their fluid and permeable construction across time and space.
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Specifications
- Publisher
- Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles
- Edited by
- Jennifer Bond, Coraline Jortay, Chang Liu,
- Journal
- Sextant | n° 38
- ISSN
- 1370267X
- Language
- English
- Publisher Category
- Publishers own classification > Gender Studies
- BISAC Subject Heading
- SOC032000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies > HIS008000 HISTORY / Asia / China
- Onix Audience Codes
- 06 Professional and scholarly
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3080 SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES > 3081 Sciences sociales > 3083 Classes sociales et stratification
- Title First Published
- 02 December 2022
- Type of Work
- Journal Issue
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 15 April 2019
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-8004-1641-0
- Extent
- Main content page count : 310
- Code
- 1641
- Dimensions
- 160 x 240 x 12 cm
- Weight
- 500 grams
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
ePub
- Publication Date
- 06 August 2019
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-8004-1680-9
- Product Content
- Text (eye-readable)
- Extent
- Main content page count : 310
- Code
- 1680
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Contents
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Tribute to Professor Mario Telò | Françoise THYS-CLÉMENT
- Mario Telò’s Contribution to International Relations | Andrew GAMBLE
- Introduction | Jean-Michel DE WAELE, Giovanni GREVI, Frederik PONJAERT,
Anne WEYEMBERGH
- I – Reflections on the Future of Social Democracy in Europe
- Parties and Democracies in Southern Europe after the ‘Great Recession’ | Leonardo MORLINO
- The Transformations of the Socialist Family: Organisational Aspects | Pascal DELWIT
- The Dilemma of Social Europe | Thomas MEYER
- The Pursuit of Another Version of Socialism: From the Nation to Europe and beyond
Europe | Christophe SENTE
- Still the Century of Social Democracy? | Mimmo CARRIERI
- The Evolution of European Welfare State Systems in Relation to National Socioeconomic
Circumstances | Chun DING
- II – Reflections on the Prospects for European Governance
- Contemporary and Past Crises: The Historical Dimension | Donald SASSOON
- Europe’s ‘Machiavellian Moment’. How Can Europe Deal with the Risk of Falling
Apart? | Paul MAGNETTE
- The Governance of the Union and the Merging of the Roles of President of the European Council and
of the European Commission | Marianne DONY
- EU Governance and the Crisis of Legitimacy: What Future for Integration? | Vivien SCHMIDT
- Differentiated Integration: A Formula Tested over Time | Ferdinando Nelli FEROCI
- European Social Policy (1957-2017): A Long Quest for Recognition | Janine GOETSCHY
- Is the EU a Proper Successor to the European Community? | Nicolas LEVRAT
- The Coordination of Macroeconomic Policies in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis : Shaping
Policies Through Executive Politics | Ramona COMAN
- III – Reflections on the Implications of Multilateralism and Multipolarism for Europe
- The Relationship between the History of Political Thought and Comparative Analysis of Regional
Organisations | Annamaria LAZZARINO DEL GROSSO
- Putting Principles into Practice: A Continued Multilateral Regime for EU-ACP Relations after the
Expiration of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement in 2020 | Nico SCHRIJVER
- Federica Mogherini Four Years Through Her Mandate as the High Representative and Vice-President
of the Commission (HRVP) | Tereza NOVOTNA
- IV – Reflections on the Lessons Drawn from Engaged Research in Europe
- Europe as a Research Topic and a Lifeworld Dimension | Furio CERUTTI
- An Innovative Understanding of Intellectual Commitment in the Twenty-First Century: Combining
High Level Research, Policy Recommendation and Large Scale Outreach | Maria João RODRIGUES
- From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century: Between Two Major Historical Junctures?
An Interview with Mario Telò Covering his Research Career from 1975 to 2017 | Frederik PONJAERT
- Bibliography
- Publications by Mario TELÒ
- List of Authors