{"product_id":"women-and-confucian-cultures-in-premodern-china-korea-and-japan-paperback","title":"Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy Ko\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJahyun Kim Haboush\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJoan Piggott\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRepresenting an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges is a concept of Confucianism that is dynamic instead of monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As teachers, mothers, writers, and rulers, women were active agents in this process. Neither rebels nor victims, these women embraced aspects of official norms while resisting others. The essays present a powerful image of what it meant to be female and to live a woman's life in a variety of social settings and historical circumstances. Challenging the conventional notion of Confucianism as an oppressive tradition that victimized women, this provocative book reveals it as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothy Ko \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet \u003c\/i\u003e(California, 2001). \u003cb\u003eJaHyun Kim Haboush \u003c\/b\u003eis King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University and the editor and translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea \u003c\/i\u003e(California, 1996). \u003cb\u003eJoan R. Piggott \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of Japanese Kingship \u003c\/i\u003e(1997).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.02 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 28, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424660840550,"sku":"9780520231382","price":72.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Q3RPY2xBL2VOcjhucjNVYVVsb2pVdz09.webp?v=1775602207","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/women-and-confucian-cultures-in-premodern-china-korea-and-japan-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}