Animals and Beauties: Zoomorphic Inscriptions of a Modern Gender Hierarchy.
At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with myriad other foundational changes taking place in China, attitudes to the role and significance of women and animals were also changing. This evolution is apparent in the artistic realm where both had featured in imperial-era Chinese...
| Published in: | NAN NU -- Men, Women & Gender in Early & Imperial China Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 265 - 313 |
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2020
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