{"product_id":"the-precious-raft-of-history-9780804773263","title":"The Precious Raft of History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this broadly researched, ambitiously structured book, Judge presents a cross-section of the writings appearing at the turn of the 20th century that addressed the so-called 'women's question' in China. Rather than using such jaded terms as \"tradition\" and \"modern,\" she ingeniously divides these writings into what she calls 'four chronotypes'...These chronotypes, which bridge history with literary theory, have enable Judge to demonstrate a complex and multifarious scene of sociocultural change at a critical juncture in Chinese history.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Judge's study of the 'woman question' does justice to its dynamism, complexity and transitional character. She has established a new benchmark in historical studies of the very late Qing.\" -- Antonia Finnane * \u003ci\u003eChina Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Joan Judge's \u003ci\u003eThe Precious Raft of History\u003c\/i\u003e does exactly what a raft is supposed to do. It rescues history, in this case the history of Chinese women in the late Qing dynasty, from the dismissive condescension of revolutionaries and scholars alike. With impressive erudition, Judge gives us genuinely new material and themes to think about. This is original, careful, exciting work.\" -- Gail Hershatter * University of California, Santa Cruz *\u003cbr\u003e\"This fascinating new book strips away scholarly illusions about ruptures in China's nineteenth and early-twentieth century history, and reveals how new roles for women have deep roots in a dense textual and cultural past. The illustrations are nothing short of fabulous.\" -- Susan Mann, University of California * Davis *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  List of Illustrations\txxx  Acknowledgments\txxx  Introduction: Women and Temporality\t1  Part One\tThe Regime of Feminine Virtue\t000  1.\tChaste Women: Sacred, Praiseworthy, or Misguided\t000  2.\tPublic Women: Licentious or Evolved\t000  Part Two\tHistory, Nation, and Female Talent\t000  3.\tWomen of Talent: Valorized and Repudiated\t000  4.\tWise Mothers and Mothers of Citizens\t000  Part Three\tNew Global Hierarchies of Female Heroism\t000  5.\tThe Chinese Woman Warrior and the Western Heroine\t000  6.\tThe New-Style Heroine and the Paradoxes of Feminine Time\t000  Conclusion: From the Turn of the Twentieth Century to the Turn of the Twenty-First\t000  Glossary and Character List\t000  Abbreviations\t000  Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405591748951,"sku":"9780804773263","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-precious-raft-of-history-9780804773263","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}