Bret Hinsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 2579320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bret Hinsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bret |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinsch |
| SIGNATURE | HINSCH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fo Guang University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China, written by D.E. Mungello
Mingdai binü qunti yanjiu 明代婢女群體研究 (Research on the types of Ming dynasty female slaves), written by Wang Xueping 王雪萍
Shi bian xia de Wudai nüxing 世變下的五代女性 (Five Dynasties women in a time of transition), written by Yamaguchi Tomoya 山口智哉, Li Zonghan 李宗翰, Liu Xiangguang 劉祥光, and Liu Liyan 柳立言
Jiuying yu jipin
Zhangfu shouze yu ‘qijia’ zhi dao
Gender History in China, edited by Masako Kohama and Linda Grove
Women in Early Medieval China
This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in 220 AD to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in 581 AD, also known as the Six Dynasties. Bret Hinsch offers rich descriptions of the most important aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritan…
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire, written by Anne F. Broadbridge, 2018
Go Nation
The Cosmopolitan Dream
Women in Ancient China
This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women’s history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China’s unification in 221 BCE. For each period—Neolithic, Shang, Western Zhou, and Eastern Zhou—Bret Hinsch explores central aspects of female life: marriage, family life, politics, ritual, and religious roles. Deeply researched, the book draws on a wide range of Chinese scholarship and primary sources, i…
Ten Chinese Books That Changed Our View of Women’s History
Scholars of Chinese women’s history in the West have often ignored the scholarship of their colleagues in China. For much of the twentieth century, Chinese academia was in chaos. With so little good research coming out of China, Western scholars became accustomed to ignoring the works of Chinese academics. Since the 1980s, however, Chinese scholarship has steadily improved, reaching international standards of quality. Chinese scholars remain high…
Chinese Masculinities in a Globalizing World, written by Kam Louie, 2015 and Changing Chinese Masculinities
Exemplary Women of Early China
Masculinities in Chinese History
Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity over the centuries. He covers the full span of Chinese history, from the Zhou dynasty in distant antiquity up to the current era of disorienting rapid c…
Male Honor and Female Chastity in Early China
In many respects, masculinity in early China resembled practices which have been described by anthropologists researching the Mediterranean region. Maintaining a reputation for honor was particularly important to Chinese manhood. As the individual was tightly integrated into a social group, men had to control the behavior of those around them to defend themselves against possible shame. For this reason, men found it useful to regulate the sexual …
The Genre of Women's Biographies in Imperial China
Nan Nü 11 (2009) 102-123 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/138768009X12454916571841 www.brill.nl/nanu N A N N Ü Review Article e Genre of Women’s Biographies in Imperial China Bret Hinsch (Foguang University, Taiwan) Michael Loewe. A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 BC – AD 24) . Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. xxiv+838 pp. €269.00/US$401.00. ISBN 978-9004-103641. Rafe de Crespigny. A …
The Emotional Underpinnings of Male Fidelity in Imperial China
Although most studies of marital fidelity in imperial China have stressed the loyalty of wives to husbands, we should not ignore the complementary phenomenon of male fidelity. The affection and faithfulness of men toward their wives were repeatedly expressed as both ideal and norm. Various media conveyed messages of male fidelity, and each genre depicts men's behavior somewhat differently. Throughout time, rich traditions of discourse on the subj…
The Criticism of Powerful Women by Western Han Dynasty Portent Experts
Western Han portent experts investigated unusual natural phenomena that they considered signs of Heaven's will. Beginning as a marginal method of historical analysis and cosmological theory, portent studies matured into a standard form of political discourse and critique. Landmark research on portents by influential scholars such as Dong Zhongshu, Jing Fang, and Liu Xiang provided sophisticated metaphysical justifications for excluding certain wo…
Van Gulik's Sexual Life in Ancient China and The Matter of Homosexuality
Prehistoric Images of Women from the North China Region
(2004). Prehistoric Images of Women from the North China Region: The Origins of Chinese Goddess Worship? Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 47-82
The Textual History of Liu Xiang's Lienüzhuan
SynopsisLienüzhuan 列女傳, a collection of moralistic biographies of women, is one of the most important works by the Western Han 西漢 dynasty scholar Liu Xiang 劉向 (79–8 B.C.E.). Due to the rising interest in women's history, this book has recently attracted considerable attention. However, the text has an extremely complex and convoluted history. After Liu Xiang composed Lienüzhuan, generations of copiers expanded it by adding new stories. By the Son…
Myth and the construction of foreign ethnic identity in early and medieval China
Early Chinese histories sometimes record two extremely different myths about the origins of a foreign people: a native version and a Sinicised version. This is the case with myths about the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Korean peoples. Native and Sinicised origin myths had different functions. Sometimes, Chinese wanted to create psychological distance between themselves and potentially dangerous foreign peoples. Recounting a native myth bolstered Chinese …
The Empress and the Dragon Throne
The consolidation of the early Ming dynasty had a major impact on the final centuries of imperial rule, yet the women who lived at the center of this long process have long remained peripheral in m...
Tongzhi Living
Metaphysics and reality of the feminine in early Neo-Confucian thought
The Emotional Underpinnings of Male Fidelity in Imperial China
Although most studies of marital fidelity in imperial China have stressed the loyalty of wives to husbands, we should not ignore the complementary phenomenon of male fidelity. The affection and faithfulness of men toward their wives were repeatedly expressed as both ideal and norm. Various media conveyed messages of male fidelity, and each genre depicts men's behavior somewhat differently. Throughout time, rich traditions of discourse on the subj…
The Origins of Separation of the Sexes in China
In recent years the study of the paired concepts zhen __ and jie rp, regularly compounded as zhenjhie .i j, has emerged as a prime research topic in all eras of Chinese women's history. Although zhenjie is often called chastity in English, this interpretation is inadequate. The rhetoric and behavior associated with zhenjie were far broader than chastity, which is primarily sexual. In contrast, zhenjie ideals were extremely wide-ranging and touche…
Myth and the construction of foreign ethnic identity in early and medieval China
Early Chinese histories sometimes record two extremely different myths about the origins of a foreign people: a native version and a Sinicised version. This is the case with myths about the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Korean peoples. Native and Sinicised origin myths had different functions. Sometimes, Chinese wanted to create psychological distance between themselves and potentially dangerous foreign peoples. Recounting a native myth bolstered Chinese …
Metaphysics and reality of the feminine in early Neo-Confucian thought
Passions of the Cut Sleeve
The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and stereotypes. Gone is the image of the sternly puritanical Confucian as sole representative of Chinese sexual practices—and with it the justification for the modern Chinese insistence that homosexuality is a recent import from the decadent West. Rediscovering the male homosexual tradition in China provide…
Women, Kinship, and Property as Seen in a Han Dynasty Will
Confucian Filial Piety and the Construction of the Ideal Chinese Buddhist Woman
(2002). Confucian Filial Piety and the Construction of the Ideal Chinese Buddhist Woman. Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 49-75
Textiles and Female Virtue in Early Imperial Chinese Historical Writing
In China, cloth making became more than just an economic activity. The female cloth maker was an important cultural image in early imperial China. Writers of various persuasions agreed that making cloth is a highly virtuous female activity, although they disagreed as to why this particular kind of labor is good. The moralization of cloth making became an important component of early Chinese female identity. Influential male writers and women of d…
The Origins of Separation of the Sexes in China
In recent years the study of the paired concepts zhen __ and jie rp, regularly compounded as zhenjhie .i j, has emerged as a prime research topic in all eras of Chinese women's history. Although zhenjie is often called chastity in English, this interpretation is inadequate. The rhetoric and behavior associated with zhenjie were far broader than chastity, which is primarily sexual. In contrast, zhenjie ideals were extremely wide-ranging and touche…
Prehistoric Images of Women from the North China Region
(2004). Prehistoric Images of Women from the North China Region: The Origins of Chinese Goddess Worship? Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 47-82
The Textual History of Liu Xiang's Lienüzhuan
SynopsisLienüzhuan 列女傳, a collection of moralistic biographies of women, is one of the most important works by the Western Han 西漢 dynasty scholar Liu Xiang 劉向 (79–8 B.C.E.). Due to the rising interest in women's history, this book has recently attracted considerable attention. However, the text has an extremely complex and convoluted history. After Liu Xiang composed Lienüzhuan, generations of copiers expanded it by adding new stories. By the Son…
Myth and the construction of foreign ethnic identity in early and medieval China
Early Chinese histories sometimes record two extremely different myths about the origins of a foreign people: a native version and a Sinicised version. This is the case with myths about the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Korean peoples. Native and Sinicised origin myths had different functions. Sometimes, Chinese wanted to create psychological distance between themselves and potentially dangerous foreign peoples. Recounting a native myth bolstered Chinese …
Van Gulik's Sexual Life in Ancient China and The Matter of Homosexuality
The Criticism of Powerful Women by Western Han Dynasty Portent Experts
Western Han portent experts investigated unusual natural phenomena that they considered signs of Heaven's will. Beginning as a marginal method of historical analysis and cosmological theory, portent studies matured into a standard form of political discourse and critique. Landmark research on portents by influential scholars such as Dong Zhongshu, Jing Fang, and Liu Xiang provided sophisticated metaphysical justifications for excluding certain wo…
The Emotional Underpinnings of Male Fidelity in Imperial China
Although most studies of marital fidelity in imperial China have stressed the loyalty of wives to husbands, we should not ignore the complementary phenomenon of male fidelity. The affection and faithfulness of men toward their wives were repeatedly expressed as both ideal and norm. Various media conveyed messages of male fidelity, and each genre depicts men's behavior somewhat differently. Throughout time, rich traditions of discourse on the subj…
The Genre of Women's Biographies in Imperial China
Nan Nü 11 (2009) 102-123 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/138768009X12454916571841 www.brill.nl/nanu N A N N Ü Review Article e Genre of Women’s Biographies in Imperial China Bret Hinsch (Foguang University, Taiwan) Michael Loewe. A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 BC – AD 24) . Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. xxiv+838 pp. €269.00/US$401.00. ISBN 978-9004-103641. Rafe de Crespigny. A …
Male Honor and Female Chastity in Early China
In many respects, masculinity in early China resembled practices which have been described by anthropologists researching the Mediterranean region. Maintaining a reputation for honor was particularly important to Chinese manhood. As the individual was tightly integrated into a social group, men had to control the behavior of those around them to defend themselves against possible shame. For this reason, men found it useful to regulate the sexual …
Masculinities in Chinese History
Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity over the centuries. He covers the full span of Chinese history, from the Zhou dynasty in distant antiquity up to the current era of disorienting rapid c…
Exemplary Women of Early China
Chinese Masculinities in a Globalizing World, written by Kam Louie, 2015 and Changing Chinese Masculinities
Women in Ancient China
This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women’s history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China’s unification in 221 BCE. For each period—Neolithic, Shang, Western Zhou, and Eastern Zhou—Bret Hinsch explores central aspects of female life: marriage, family life, politics, ritual, and religious roles. Deeply researched, the book draws on a wide range of Chinese scholarship and primary sources, i…
Ten Chinese Books That Changed Our View of Women’s History
Scholars of Chinese women’s history in the West have often ignored the scholarship of their colleagues in China. For much of the twentieth century, Chinese academia was in chaos. With so little good research coming out of China, Western scholars became accustomed to ignoring the works of Chinese academics. Since the 1980s, however, Chinese scholarship has steadily improved, reaching international standards of quality. Chinese scholars remain high…
Women in Early Medieval China
This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in 220 AD to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in 581 AD, also known as the Six Dynasties. Bret Hinsch offers rich descriptions of the most important aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritan…
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire, written by Anne F. Broadbridge, 2018
Go Nation
The Cosmopolitan Dream
Gender History in China, edited by Masako Kohama and Linda Grove
Jiuying yu jipin
Chinese history and philosophy (21 works) · History (21 works) · China (20 works) · Art (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works)