Male friendship in Ming China / edited by Martin W. Huang.

• TeilnehmendeR: Huang, Martin W., 1960-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2007
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Notes: "The content of this volume is a reprint of vol. 9, issue 1 (2007) of Nan Nü, men, women and gender in China"--T.p. verso.

This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called “five cardinal human relationships”. Why the cult of friendship in Ming China? How was male friendship theorized, practiced and represented during that period? These are some of the questions the current volume deals with. Coming from different disciplines (history, musicology and literary studies), the contributors thoroughly explore the complexities and the gendered nature of friendship in Ming China. This volume has also been published as a special theme issue of Brill's journal NAN NÜ, Men, Women and Gender in China .

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / M.W. Huang -- Male Friendship In Ming China: An Introduction / Martin W. Huang -- Friendship Through Fourteenth-Century Fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao And Ding Henian / Anne Gerritsen -- Music And Male Bonding In Ming China / Joseph S. C. Lam -- A Friendship Of Metal And Stone: Representations Of Fan Juqing And Zhang Yuanbo In The Ming Dynasty / Kimberly Besio -- Male Friendship And Jiangxue (Philosophical Debates) In Sixteenth-Century China / Martin W. Huang -- A Selected Bibliography Of Secondary Sources / Martin W. Huang -- Index / Harriet T. Zurndorfer.