Keith Mcmahon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 324144 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Keith Mcmahon |
| NOMBRES | Keith |
| APELLIDO | Mcmahon |
| FIRMA | MCMAHON K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0507-5736 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
In Slavery’s Wake
In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World is a first-of-its-kind exhibition developed by a group of international curators, historians, and cultural practitioners, and is the product of a multi-year collective called the Global Curatorial Project (GCP). The GCP formed in 2014 to address key questions on how we think about, interpret, and discuss the histories of global racial slavery and colonialism with broad publics in institutions a…
The Potent Eunuch, Revisited
This essay is a resumption of a study of Ming eunuchs previously published, now supplemented with a review of work done by others since, to give an overview of eunuch studies and to make generalizations about four key areas of eunuch existence: 1) Their occupations, that is, the jobs that they performed; 2) The paths by which one became a eunuch; 3) Their bodily existence, or in other words, their appearance and physiology; and 4) Their gender st…
Exploring the use of musical activities implemented in home-based dementia care as part of the Homeside study
This research highlights the benefits of music training for informal caregivers. A "Triangle of care" approach to provide care and support for the caregiver and care recipient is recommended
The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century, written by Alister Inglis
Monkey and Masculinity
Readers of the Ming novel Xiyou ji (Journey to the West) assume that the Monkey character, Sun Wukong, is masculine in gender. They see his outright claims to manliness and masculinity, especially in his proud references to himself as haohan , “good man,” or “true man.” Besides his masculinity, he also needs to be considered in light of his asexuality, which he expresses in his insistence that he “has never engaged in that kind of thing.” This st…
Writing about the Art of Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei
When I first encountered Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅 in the late 1970s, no scholars had yet written at length about the novel's descriptions of sex.We were ill equipped to do so; or the assumption was that such a topic was not serious or
A qualitative systematic review of the experiences of sharing music for people living with dementia and their family care partners
Demon-Immortal Monkey
A little-studied aspect of the Monkey character 孫悟空 (Sun Wukong) in Wu Cheng'en's 吳承恩 Xiyou ji 西遊記 (Journey to the West) is his identity in terms of category of being, that is, how he fits into and rebels against the cosmic system of the ranking and classifying of beings that governs the novel. He is a human-like monkey, who is also an aspiring immortal, who was once a miscreant demon, who moreover never completely sheds his demon-like behavior. …
The Homeside Music Intervention
Background: The number of people living with dementia (PwD) worldwide is expected to double every 20 years. Many continue living at home, receiving support from family caregivers who may experience significant stress, simultaneously to that of the PwD. Meaningful and effective home-based interventions to support PwD and their caregivers are needed. The development of a theory- and practice-driven online home-based music intervention (MI) is deliv…
Exploring Shared Musical Experiences in Dementia Care
Qualitative systematic reviews, or qualitative evidence syntheses (QES), are increasingly used in health settings to guide the development of practice and policy. Thematic synthesis is one of the most well-developed approaches used for QES, however there are limited worked examples describing how to apply the steps of analysis in the literature. This paper describes the processes and decisions undertaken in a qualitative systematic review and the…
The Empress in the Pepper Chamber
Olivia Milburn. The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2021. 234 pp. $99.00 hardcover, ISBN 9780295748740; $30.00 paperback, ISBN 9780295748757This book presents a thorough study of narratives about the Han dynasty empress, Zhao Feiyan 趙飛燕 (32 BCE–1 BCE), from the earliest to the latest, and includes the first full translation and publication of the mid-ninth-cent…
Social Capital’s Role in Humanitarian Crises
The growing scale and persistence of humanitarian crises constitute a critical problem for nation-states, aid organizations and crisis-affected people. Many humanitarian responders continue to focus on material aid, providing essential supplies and services during these crises, while other actors restore physical infrastructures. We believe aid efforts are overlooking the pivotal nature of horizontal and vertical ties within and between communiti…
The Art of the Bedchamber and Jin Ping Mei
The ‘art of the bedchamber’ texts occupy a key place in pre-modern Chinese sexual culture, sharing that place with an even larger body of texts of later origin, the sexually explicit novels and stories of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, and Jin Ping Mei (The plum in the golden vase) in particular. The two genres – the texts of the bedchamber arts and Ming and Qing erotic fiction – have key commonalities, especially in the gov…
Childhood Asthma Disparities in Chicago
We conducted a needs assessment to develop an evidence-based, locally tailored asthma care implementation plan for high-risk children with asthma in Chicago. Our team of health policy experts, clinicians, researchers, and designers included extensive stakeholder engagement (N = 162) in a mixed-methods community needs assessment. Results showed the lines of communication and collaboration across sectors were weak; caregivers were the only consiste…
The Attendant's Lament
The brothel and the local yamen are the two main institutions around which life revolves in the 1848 novel Fengyue meng 風月夢 (Seductive Dreams) by an anonymous author. Loan-sharking, squeeze, and extortion are the most prominent ways besides prostitution of making a living in this milieu, which features an array of characters rarely described before in fiction in such detail: yamen functionaries and other working or idle underlings, including cler…
Polygamy and Sublime Passion
For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the "polygynous male," the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in stories of female resistance and superiority. Women—main wives, concubines, and prostitutes—were adept at exerting…
Snakes' Legs
Snakes' Legs examines sequels (xushu), a common but long-neglected literary phenomenon in traditional China. What prompted writers to produce sequels despite their poor reputation as a genre? What motivated readers to read them? How should we characterize the nature of the relationship between sequels and rewritings? Contributors to this volume illuminate these and other questions, and the collection as a whole offers a comprehensive consideratio…
Mirage (Shenlou zhi 蜃樓志), written by Anonymous, translated by Patrick Hanan, 2014
The Potent Eunuch
Literary and historical sources assumed ulterior, even diabolical, motives in the man who voluntarily became a eunuch. If he was lucky, he could become the ruler's confidant and even usurp imperial power. Focusing on Ming eunuch Wei Zhongxian (1568–1627), the article addresses key questions in the portrayal of eunuchs: How and why did a man become a eunuch? What were his motives, as far as can be learned from historical cases; and what did storyt…
Women Shall Not Rule
Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated wit…
The Institution of Polygamy in the Chinese Imperial Palace
This study examines Chinese imperial polygamy under two aspects, as institution and actual practice. Institution refers to its existence as a set of rules and expectations, practice to the actual ways in which imperial people carried out polygamy as recorded in both historical and fictional sources. The key to the institutionalization of polygamy had to do with the idea that a ruler did not engage in polygamy because he wanted to, but because he …
Women Shall Not Rule
Prologue: Sexual Politics and State Politics Part I: Early China, 1250 BCE-317 CE Chapter 1: The Institution and Values of Royal Polygamy Chapter 2: Empresses and Consorts of the Former Han, 206 BCE-25 CE Chapter 3: The Later Han to the End of the Western Jin, 25-317 Part II: The Eastern Jin to the Reign of Wu Zetian, 317-712 Chapter 4: The Period of Disunity, 317-589 Chapter 5: The Sui and Early Tang Dynasties to Empress Wu, 581-705 Part III: Th…
Women Rulers in Imperial China
“Women Rulers in Imperial China”is about the history and characteristics of rule by women in China from the Han dynasty to the Qing, especially focusing on the Tang dynasty ruler Wu Zetian (625-705) and the Song dynasty Empress Liu. The usual reason that allowed a woman to rule was the illness, incapacity, or death of her emperor-husband and the extreme youth of his son the successor. In such situations, the precedent was for a woman to govern te…
The Inner Quarters and Beyond
Polygamy and Sublime Passion
For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the “polygynous male,” the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in stories of female resistance and superiority. Women—main wives, concubines, and prostitutes—were adept at exerting…
Social Capital’s Role in Humanitarian Crises
The growing scale and persistence of humanitarian crises constitute a critical problem for nation-states, aid organizations and crisis-affected people. Many humanitarian responders continue to focus on material aid, providing essential supplies and services during these crises, while other actors restore physical infrastructures. We believe aid efforts are overlooking the pivotal nature of horizontal and vertical ties within and between communiti…
Obscene Things
Preface Part One: Practices 1. Jin-ology 2. The Manic Preface: Jin Shengtan's (1608-1661) 3. A Cure for Melancholy: Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610) and the Qifa (the Seven Stimuli) 4. Tears of Ressentiment: Zhang Zhupo's (1670-1698) Jin Ping Mei Part Two: Intervention 5. Tiger and Yinfu 6. Red Shoes, Footbindings and the Swing 7. A Cat, a Dog, the Killing of Livestock 8. Very Close to yinfu and enu or How Prefaces Matter for JPM (1695) and Enu Shu (Taip…
Eroticism in Late Ming, Early Qing Fiction
Two Late Ming Vernacular Novels
Introduction To date the two late Ming novels CHAN ZHEN YISHI (LOST TALES OF THE TRUE WAY) and its sequel CHAN ZHEN HOUSHI (LATER TALES OF THE TRUE WAY), by Fang Ruhao, have received little scholarly attention. In comparison with the JOURNEY TO THE WEST or the GOLDEN LOTUS, they perhaps have less to offer in terms of style, complexity of structure, and intellectual depth. However, they are of interest because of their characteristically late Ming…
Two Late Ming Vernacular Novels
Introduction To date the two late Ming novels CHAN ZHEN YISHI (LOST TALES OF THE TRUE WAY) and its sequel CHAN ZHEN HOUSHI (LATER TALES OF THE TRUE WAY), by Fang Ruhao, have received little scholarly attention. In comparison with the JOURNEY TO THE WEST or the GOLDEN LOTUS, they perhaps have less to offer in terms of style, complexity of structure, and intellectual depth. However, they are of interest because of their characteristically late Ming…
Eroticism in Late Ming, Early Qing Fiction
The Contents and Terminology of the Mawangdui Texts on the Arts of the Bedchamber
In the Han, the art of the bedchamber belonged to the disciplines called “prescriptions and techniques,” which also included various medical arts such as nutrition, internal conduction, and associated incantations and spells. This essay investigates the Mawangdui art of the bedchamber texts with special emphasis on their terminology, and briefly addresses the importance of these texts in studying ancient Chinese culture. Seven texts are examined:…
Historian of the Strange
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists
Potent polygamists and chaste monogamists -- Polygamy according to fiction and prescriptive models -- Shrews and jealousy in seventeenth and eighteenth-century vernacular fiction -- The self-containing man: the miser and ascetic -- The chaste "beauty-scholar" romance and the superiority of the talented woman -- The erotic scholar-beauty romance -- A case for Confucian sexuality: chaste polygamy in Yesou Puyan -- Polygyny, crossing of gender, and …
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists
Opium and Sexuality in late Qing Fiction
This article examines opium smoking in two gendered contexts of the late Qing, as an activity among socializing men and in situations between men and women. The method is to use fiction to ask how male and female smokers differed and in general to show how opium came to symbolize an uncanny and ominous disruption of the social fabric. In terms of gender, the obscene enjoyment of the female smoker was exponentially more threatening in the prohibit…
Technology and Gender
Sublime Love and the Ethics of Equality in a Homoerotic Novel of the Nineteenth Century
Precious Mirror of Boy Actresses is the most serious piece of fiction about male love since the late Ming and the lengthiest of all in Chinese literary history. It is remarkable in its extension of the egalitarian implications of the qing aesthetic that it inherits from the late Ming and from earlier Qing literature such as Dream of the Red Chamber. In the homoerotic relationship it idealizes, lovers who are rigidly separated in terms of status n…
Fleecing the Male Customer in Shanghai Brothels of the 1890s
Late Qing novels abound in situations of transition, where classical antecedents coexist with modern departures. In this period of not-so-sure adjustment, we still encounter the love fantasy of the elite prostitute and her male patron, which has traditionally constituted a home away from the ritually defined home of marriage and family. In the 1892 novel Flowers of Shanghai (Haishanghua liezhuan), by Han Bangqing, this home away from home has now…
Obscene Things
Preface Part One: Practices 1. Jin-ology 2. The Manic Preface: Jin Shengtan's (1608-1661) 3. A Cure for Melancholy: Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610) and the Qifa (the Seven Stimuli) 4. Tears of Ressentiment: Zhang Zhupo's (1670-1698) Jin Ping Mei Part Two: Intervention 5. Tiger and Yinfu 6. Red Shoes, Footbindings and the Swing 7. A Cat, a Dog, the Killing of Livestock 8. Very Close to yinfu and enu or How Prefaces Matter for JPM (1695) and Enu Shu (Taip…
Opium smoking and modern subjectivity
As an agent in the extension of the capitalist network of exchange, opium was a magic helper that allowed early nineteenth-century British merchants sudden propulsion across China's closely control
Cindarella's Sisters
Disgraceful Matters
Polygamy and Sublime Passion
For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the “polygynous male,” the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in stories of female resistance and superiority. Women—main wives, concubines, and prostitutes—were adept at exerting…
Red-light Novels of the Late Qing
150 Reviews / Nan Nü 11 (2009) 124-152 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/138768009X12454916572165 Chloë Starr. Red-light Novels of the Late Qing . Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2007. xxvi + 291pp. €104/US$154. ISBN: 978-90-04-15629-6 Red-light Novels of the Late Qing is a study of six novels written between 1840 and 1910 which focus on the relationships between patrons and prostitutes. It is a learned and idea-packed book full of expe…
The Inner Quarters and Beyond
Women Shall Not Rule
Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated wit…
The Institution of Polygamy in the Chinese Imperial Palace
This study examines Chinese imperial polygamy under two aspects, as institution and actual practice. Institution refers to its existence as a set of rules and expectations, practice to the actual ways in which imperial people carried out polygamy as recorded in both historical and fictional sources. The key to the institutionalization of polygamy had to do with the idea that a ruler did not engage in polygamy because he wanted to, but because he …
Women Shall Not Rule
Prologue: Sexual Politics and State Politics Part I: Early China, 1250 BCE-317 CE Chapter 1: The Institution and Values of Royal Polygamy Chapter 2: Empresses and Consorts of the Former Han, 206 BCE-25 CE Chapter 3: The Later Han to the End of the Western Jin, 25-317 Part II: The Eastern Jin to the Reign of Wu Zetian, 317-712 Chapter 4: The Period of Disunity, 317-589 Chapter 5: The Sui and Early Tang Dynasties to Empress Wu, 581-705 Part III: Th…
Women Rulers in Imperial China
“Women Rulers in Imperial China”is about the history and characteristics of rule by women in China from the Han dynasty to the Qing, especially focusing on the Tang dynasty ruler Wu Zetian (625-705) and the Song dynasty Empress Liu. The usual reason that allowed a woman to rule was the illness, incapacity, or death of her emperor-husband and the extreme youth of his son the successor. In such situations, the precedent was for a woman to govern te…
The Potent Eunuch
Literary and historical sources assumed ulterior, even diabolical, motives in the man who voluntarily became a eunuch. If he was lucky, he could become the ruler's confidant and even usurp imperial power. Focusing on Ming eunuch Wei Zhongxian (1568–1627), the article addresses key questions in the portrayal of eunuchs: How and why did a man become a eunuch? What were his motives, as far as can be learned from historical cases; and what did storyt…
Mirage (Shenlou zhi 蜃樓志), written by Anonymous, translated by Patrick Hanan, 2014
Polygamy and Sublime Passion
For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the "polygynous male," the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in stories of female resistance and superiority. Women—main wives, concubines, and prostitutes—were adept at exerting…
Snakes' Legs
Snakes' Legs examines sequels (xushu), a common but long-neglected literary phenomenon in traditional China. What prompted writers to produce sequels despite their poor reputation as a genre? What motivated readers to read them? How should we characterize the nature of the relationship between sequels and rewritings? Contributors to this volume illuminate these and other questions, and the collection as a whole offers a comprehensive consideratio…
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