This book investigates the origins and evolutions of gender benchmarking in Asian literature. It examines how various agents such as ritualistic practices, family expectations, cultural orientations and even dogmatic factors contribute to the benchmarking of gender as presented in Asian literature and its adaptations. This allows exploration of relevant notions in demonstrating the rooted causes, developments and changing aspects of cultural norms and how they act upon men and women as individuals in the familial, social and vocational contexts. This book provides a systematical analysis on the representation of gender in terms of various historical backgrounds, geographical territories and cultural products in the Asian context. It connects cultural conventions and literary works written centuries ago with digitalized modernity through diagnosing the circumstances that give rise to the emergence of gender norms, their persistence, decline, and reappearance. Through this, it raises questions about the millennial influences and effects of Confucian ideology upon some Asian cultural products. It also dissects gender-related biases and discriminatory acts in the ancient setting across the contemporary digitalized environment to provide a contemporary response towards concerns over gender-related shaming and ostracization. Finally, it discusses the fluidity of gender, the varying perceptions of this idea and the existence of gender itselffrom cyborg literature to artificial intelligence applications. This makes it an ideal all-in-one reader for intellectuals and students in gender studies, Asia-focused humanities, and comparative culture and literary studies.
Gender Perspectives and Womens Pain in the Writings of Xue Fucheng
(1838-1894).- Gender Stereotyping: Metamorphosis of Womanly Roles in
Cantonese Opera Plays.- Negotiating domestic space in early 20th China.-
Voicing Queer Outcasts: Homosexuality and Mental Health in Mu Cao s Qier
(2005).- Who Raises Children?: A New Family Building in And the Baton was
passed.- The Tragic Rebirth of the Race of Angels: Korean Sexism through Cho
Nam-Joos Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982.- Shifting Expectations: Gender, Caregiving,
and Resistance in Asian Literary Films.- Asian Elitism, Gender Differences,
and Hawk-Dove Games: the Hell of Good Intentions in the 3 Body Problem
Trilogy.- Gendering Scapegoating: Social Exclusion of Women as Sacral
Cleansing in Valmikis Ramayana.- The Fox, the Woman, and the Cyborg: Gender,
Identity, and Power in Ken Lius Good Hunting.
Chan, Kelly Kar Yue completed her undergraduate degree and her masters degree both in the discipline of Translation and Interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong. She then finished her Ph.D. in Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. She is currently an associate professor in language and translation at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on culture and translation, and literary translation. Her research interests include literary translation, womens studies in classical Chinese society, classical Chinese literature (poetry), and translation of Cantonese opera.
Lau Garfield Chi Sum obtained her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is an assistant professor in Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She is responsible for courses in English Language and Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her areas of interest include Modernism, Psychoanalytic Criticism and Comparative Studies.
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