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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

Livre broché


Publication Date
03 January 2005
ISBN-13
978-2-8004-1347-1
Extent
Main content page count : 248
Code
1347
Dimensions
160 x 240 x 18 cm
Weight
442 grams
ONIX XML
Version 2.1, Version 3

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Contents


CHAPITRE 1  - La situation du théâtre à l'aube du XVIIIe siècle

Les origines du théâtre à Bruxelles

Comédiens à Bruxelles au XVIIIe siècle

 

CHAPITRE 2 - Troupes et comédiens itinérants

Les troupes itinérantes

Le voyage

Les comédiens nomades

 

CHAPITRE 3 - Raisons de la sédentarisation des troupes à la fin du siècle

Le public : son goût croissant pour le théâtre
L 'entrepreneur : les raisons économiques de sa stabilisation
L 'urbanisation : la construction de théâtres définitifs dans les grandes villes