HSTAS 457, Winter 2007
Women in Chinese History to 1800

Week 8 Assignments

5/18

Women and Gender in the Dream of the Red Chamber, I

Volume 1 of The Story of the Stone

Book reviews:

Edwards, Louise. 1994. Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in the Red Chamber Dream Leiden: Brill.

Wu, Yenna. 1995. The Chinese Virago: A Literary Theme. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University.

Article reviews:

Yu, Anthony C. 1980. "Self and Family in the Hung-lou Meng: A New Look at Lin Tai-yü as Tragic Heroine, CLEAR,2.2: 199-223.

Wagner, Marsha. 1985. "Maids and Servants in Dreams of the Red Chamber: Individuality and the Social Order," in Expressions of Self in Chinese Literature, ed. Robert E. Hegel and Richard C. Hessney. New York: Columbia University Press.

Wong Kam-ming, 1985. "Point of View and Feminism: Images of Women in Hongloumeng," in Women and Literature in China, ed. Anna Gerstlacher, Ruth Keen, Wolfgang Kubin, Margit Miosga and Jenny Schon. Bochum: Brockmeyer

Waltner, Ann. 1989. "On Not Becoming a Heroine: Lin Dai-yu and Cui Ying-ying," Signs15.1:61-78.

Cooper, Eugene and Meng Zhang. 1993. "Patterns of Cousin Marriage in Rural Zhejiang and in Dream of the Red Chamber." I 52.1:90-106.

Miller, Lucien. 1995. "Children of the Dream: The Adolescent World in Cao Xueqin's Honglou meng." In Chinese Views of Childhood, ed. Anne Behnke Kinney.   Pp. 219-47.

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