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Book SynopsisGender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles. Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker. Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Kristen L. Chiem and Lara C. W. Blanchard Part 1 Representations of Femininity 1 Cartographies of Alterity: Shape-Shifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan Radu Leca 2 Indoctrinating Female Virtue: The Social Use of Chosŏn Woodblock Prints Nayeon Kim 3 Beauty under the Willow Tree: Picturing Virtuous Women in Nineteenth-Century China Kristen L. Chiem 4 Skillful Means (upāya) of the Courtesan as Bodhisattva Fugen: Maruyama Ōkyo’s Lady Eguchi Ikumi Kaminishi Part 2 Women as Makers 5 The Artistic Legacy of Yōgen’in, A Mortuary Temple Sponsored by Women in Early Modern Kyoto Elizabeth Lillehoj 6 Reconfijiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony Ying-chen Peng 7 Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History Charlotte Horlyck Part 3 Constructions of Gender and Interactions with the West 8 The Personal is Political: The Life and Death and Life of Na Hye-sŏk (1896–1948) Sunglim Kim 9 “Civilized” Men and “Superstitious” Women: Visualizing the Hokkaido Ainu in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 Christina M. Spiker Index
