Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture

Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture

Author: Robin Wang

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

ISBN: 0872206513

Category: History

Page: 449

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Including writings that could be considered historical, philosophical, religious, and literary, Wang (philosophy, Loyola Marymount U.) presents an anthology that explores Chinese attitudes towards women and gender from the earliest known writings of 1200 B.C.E. to the period of the Song dynasty (1279 C.E.). Fifty-four writings, some presented in English for the first time, are selected from classics and lesser known works in order to illustrate attitudes towards women and the impact of those attitudes on Chinese cosmologies, views of nature, and cultural practices. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 449

Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture

Authors: Robin Wang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Including writings that could be considered historical, philosophical, religious, and literary, Wang (philosophy, Loyola Marymount U.) presents an anthology that explores Chinese attitudes towards women and gender from the earliest known writings of 1200 B.C.E. to the period of the Song dynasty (1279 C.E.). Fifty-four writings, some presented in English
Yinyang
Language: en
Pages: 250

Yinyang

Authors: Robin Wang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The concept of yinyang lies at the heart of Chinese thought and culture. This book explores the relationship between these two opposing forces.
Confucian Ren and Feminist Ethics of Care
Language: en
Pages: 182

Confucian Ren and Feminist Ethics of Care

Authors: Lijun Yuan
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-28 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Confucian traditions have ingrained gender stratifications in Chinese culture today. Yuan proposes re-reading early Confucian texts as a vision of Ren with Dao with the unity of heaven, earth, and humanity, in order to reclaim the egalitarian aspects and develop openness for gender equity with integration of feminist critical care
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender
Language: en
Pages: 432

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender

Authors: Ann A. Pang-White
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-21 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Covering the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender presents a comprehensive overview of the complexity of gender disparity in Chinese thought and culture. Divided into four main sections, an international group of experts in Chinese Studies write on Confucian, Daoist and
Female Philosophers in Contemporary Taiwan and the Problem of Women in Chinese Thought
Language: en
Pages: 310

Female Philosophers in Contemporary Taiwan and the Problem of Women in Chinese Thought

Authors: Jana S. Rošker
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-20 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book illuminates the problem of women in Chinese philosophy through the lens of the lives and work of two contemporary Taiwanese female philosophers. It takes two approaches that have been relegated, quite unfairly, to the margins of dominant discourses. The first is concerned with the work of women philosophical