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Precarious Peripheries

Gender from the Margins of China
First Edition

The construction and imagination of Chin'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 contruction and imagination? Whi are the inhabitants of the largins: 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 bounderies - 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
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
Title First Published
02 December 2022
Type of Work
Journal Issue

Paperback


Product Detail
1
Publication Date
02 December 2022
ISBN-13
978-2-8004-1777-6
Extent
Absolute page count : 149
Code
1777
Dimensions
16 x 24 cm
ONIX XML
Version 2.1, Version 3

ePub


Publication Date
01 September 2022
ISBN-13
978-2-8004-1778-3
Extent
Absolute page count : 149
Code
1778
ONIX XML
Version 2.1, Version 3

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