How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in
China from prehistoric times to the present day? Gender History in
China presents for the first time in English the work of leading
Japanese scholars in the fields of archaeology, history,
literature, sociology and law who examine the gender dynamics that
have shaped and changed Chinese society over several thousand
years. The eighteen chapters and six columns look at the ways
gender norms and customary legal practices shaped the family,
kinship, and the social order, and how those norms were reflected
in work patterns, inheritance, daily life, and literary works.
Attention is given to the fundamental principle of qi (material
essence) as a building block in cosmology, as well as in legal
understandings of family relations. The second part of the volume
turns to the dramatic changes in gender patterns from the late
nineteenth century, looking at the inflow of new ideas, the
struggle for political rights and economic equality, and the
institution of new gender norms in socialist and reform-era China.
The authors take up such topics as the view of the body in relation
to Chinese cosmology, the incorporation of the military man into
China's model of hegemonic masculinity, the household registration
system as a means of control, the appraisal of "talented women",
and the intersection of gender norms and nationalism. Gender
History in China enriches our understanding of Chinese history and
of contemporary Chinese society.
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