Harriet T Zurndorfer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 708233 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Harriet T Zurndorfer |
| NOMBRES | Harriet T |
| APELLIDO | Zurndorfer |
| FIRMA | ZURNDORFER H T |
| AFILIACIONES | Leiden University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Human Trafficking, Beautiful Women, the Land of the Cockaigne, and Burmese Bells
Ragionamenti del mio viaggio intorno al mondo [Chronicles of my voyage around the world] by Francesco Carletti (1573–1636), a Florentine slave merchant and the first private individual to circumnavigate the globe, is a rich source of information about human trafficking from Africa to Spanish America. Carletti writes in detail about his encounters beginning in 1594 in Africa, America, and Asia, including the Philippines, Japan, Macao, Malacca, and…
Index to NAN NÜ Volumes 1-25 (1999-2023)
Nan Nü
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia
This study asks how human trafficking in Ming China (1368-1644) became enveloped in the emerging global economy of the sixteenth century. Utilizing theoretical insights from the model of 'slaving zones,' the essay examines recorded incidents of human trafficking along China's littoral from 1370 to 1565 and contends that its presence and persistence were intertwined with the Ming court's economic policies and problems. Here the history of human tr…
Chinese Women, Power, Politics, and Sexuality. A Brief Introduction
This study traces the close relationship between power, politics, and sexuality in China's long history, from earliest times to the present-day. It argues firstly, that adopting sexuality as an analytical category in Chinese historical development reveals its centrality to statecraft and politics, and secondly, that it is female sexuality which political regimes both in the past and present have given primary attention. Evidence to support these …
The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan
In this ambitious book, Lúcio de Sousa has three aims: to reconstruct the system of trafficking Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan circa 1550-1650, to apprise readers of Japanese communities in the Hapsburg empire, and to analyze Iberian legislation regarding the Japanese slave trade.The majority of the book's eight chapters focus on the first goal.One chapter is centered on the second, and one on the third.On the face of it, the boo…
Index to NAN NÜ Volumes 1-20 (1999-2018)
The Art of Being Governed
Ming history lends itself to all kinds of comparisons and contrasts, both within and outside China. Readers of Michael Szonyi’s excellent book will recognize that the first part of the title reverb
Editor’s Message
Celestial Women
Escape from the country
This study focuses on two marginalized groups in Chinese society: 27-years old (or older) ‘left-over’ (never-married) women and divorced women. Both these kinds of women are subject to discrimination and ridicule by the mass media and even their own families. This essay argues that despite the economic prosperity China has enjoyed over the last thirty years, gender relations in the country are rooted in a patriarchal discourse that reveals a hybr…
Waves of Publications on Chinese Women and Gender Studies
This essay traces the evolution of Chinese women and gender studies in academia since the 1970s through a discussion of a number of prominent Western-language book publications that reveal changing scholarly approaches and attitudes toward this subject. It makes evident that within several generations the field has developed from a study favoured by left-leaning academics to a subject fed by multi-disciplinary approaches and integral to China sch…
A Conversation With Harriet Zurndorfer
AG:I would like to begin by situating you within the field of Ming studies. To what extent do you see yourself as a Ming scholar? If not, then how would you describe yourself?HTZ: I see myself in t
Oceans of History, Seas of Change
This article focuses on recent revisionist scholarship demonstrating that China's maritime history in the period 1500 to 1630 is no longer a case of ‘missed opportunity’, a viewpoint fostered by earlier writing dominated by state-centric and land-focused models. To challenge this perspective, this study first reviews analyses demonstrating the far-reaching commercial networks between Ming China and localities in Southeast and Northeast Asia, and …
The Female Chastity Cult in Huizhou during the Late Imperial Era
This essay introduces the region of Huizhou famed for its scenery, its commercial agriculture, its merchants who traded local products all over the empire, and the lineages to which these men belonged. Huizhou was also known for the high numbers of its chaste women who during the Ming dynasty came under the scrutiny of the local community. The female chastity cult in Huizhou was manifested in various ways, and the three articles in this special N…
Men, Women, Money, and Morality
This paper focuses on men and women engaged in China's sexual economy, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television serial, Woju (Dwelling Narrowness), coupled with recent ethnographic studies, the paper shows how this sexual economy t…
Women in Chinese Learned Culture
The passion to collect, select, and protect
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Nan Nü Men, Women and Gender in China
Rethinking Empress Dowager Cixi through the Production of Art
This essay commences with an overview of recent revisionist scholarship about Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) who in her lifetime and thereafter gained a reputation as a formidable opponent of the modernization process in late Qing China. It reviews both past and present studies about the Empress’s political behavior, considers her changing image in more recent historical writing in and outside China, and then focuses on her interest in art and …
The State of Ming Studies in Europe
This article introduces a number of ongoing or recently-completed research projects in European universities in which the Ming era is relevant. It then reviews recent publications focused on the Ming period according to discipline by Europe-based scholars since 1995. The essay concludes with the observation that despite the eclectic state of Ming studies in Europe nowadays, some excellent work is being done which may be viewed in the printed cont…
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550–1644)
This study pursues three goals: to unravel the socio-economic conditions which pushed women into prostitution and courtesanship, to analyse their position in Chinese society, and to relate what changes occurred at the end of the Ming dynasty that affected their status. According to contemporary judicial regulations, both prostitutes and courtesans were classified as “entertainers”, and therefore had the status of jianmin [mean people], which made…
Cotton Textile Manufacture and Marketing in Late Imperial China and the ‘Great Divergence’
By 1800 cotton cloth was China’s most important domestic trade commodity after grain. This paper reviews the history of cotton textile production in the Jiangnan region (or Lower Yangzi River area) where it thrived from 1300 to 1830, and discusses the factors contributing to its commercialization. It reveals the impact of the Ming and Qing governments in its institutionalization, and how the social organization of the industry was framed around t…
The Quest for Gentility in China. Negotiations beyond Gender and Class
Vermeer's Hat
Men, Women, Money, and Morality
This paper focuses on men and women engaged in China's sexual economy, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television serial, Woju (Dwelling Narrowness), coupled with recent ethnographic studies, the paper shows how this sexual economy t…
The Survival of Empire-Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea 1630-1754
Escape from the country
This study focuses on two marginalized groups in Chinese society: 27-years old (or older) ‘left-over’ (never-married) women and divorced women. Both these kinds of women are subject to discrimination and ridicule by the mass media and even their own families. This essay argues that despite the economic prosperity China has enjoyed over the last thirty years, gender relations in the country are rooted in a patriarchal discourse that reveals a hybr…
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550–1644)
This study pursues three goals: to unravel the socio-economic conditions which pushed women into prostitution and courtesanship, to analyse their position in Chinese society, and to relate what changes occurred at the end of the Ming dynasty that affected their status. According to contemporary judicial regulations, both prostitutes and courtesans were classified as “entertainers”, and therefore had the status of jianmin [mean people], which made…
Violence and Political Protest in Ming and Qing China
Thomas T. Meadows, an experienced British diplomat in China during the nineteenth century and author of The Chinese and Their Rebellions , wrote: “Of all nations that have attained a certain degree of civilization, the Chinese are the least revolutionary and the most rebellious.” Meadows had ample opportunity to make such a remark since he was witness to some of China's fiercest rebellions, those committed by the Taipings, the Nien and Moslem gro…
Waves of Publications on Chinese Women and Gender Studies
This essay traces the evolution of Chinese women and gender studies in academia since the 1970s through a discussion of a number of prominent Western-language book publications that reveal changing scholarly approaches and attitudes toward this subject. It makes evident that within several generations the field has developed from a study favoured by left-leaning academics to a subject fed by multi-disciplinary approaches and integral to China sch…
Women in Chinese Learned Culture
Cotton Textile Manufacture and Marketing in Late Imperial China and the ‘Great Divergence’
By 1800 cotton cloth was China’s most important domestic trade commodity after grain. This paper reviews the history of cotton textile production in the Jiangnan region (or Lower Yangzi River area) where it thrived from 1300 to 1830, and discusses the factors contributing to its commercialization. It reveals the impact of the Ming and Qing governments in its institutionalization, and how the social organization of the industry was framed around t…
A Guide to the “New” Chinese History
During the last 15 years or so, the study of Chinese history in the United States and Europe has been transformed through new foci of interest as well as the employment of social science methodologies. This article surveys a selected number of recent publications and categorizes them according to five themes: “commoners, women, and outsiders”, “the structural approach”, “state and society”, “China and l'histoire globale ”, and “China and the West…
The Hsin-an Ta-Tsu Chih and the Development of Chinese Gentry Society 800-1600
One characteristic that distinguished one Chinese region from another from the Sung period onward was the prevalence or otherwise of large extended families or lineages. In some areas such as Kwangtung and Fukien the development of large extended families became common while in most parts of North China it did not 1). Perhaps the area where the development of lineages is best documented as shown by its high number of genealogies, is the prefectur…
Violence and Political Protest in Ming and Qing China
Thomas T. Meadows, an experienced British diplomat in China during the nineteenth century and author of The Chinese and Their Rebellions , wrote: “Of all nations that have attained a certain degree of civilization, the Chinese are the least revolutionary and the most rebellious.” Meadows had ample opportunity to make such a remark since he was witness to some of China's fiercest rebellions, those committed by the Taipings, the Nien and Moslem gro…
Local Lineages and Local Development
A Guide to the “New” Chinese History
During the last 15 years or so, the study of Chinese history in the United States and Europe has been transformed through new foci of interest as well as the employment of social science methodologies. This article surveys a selected number of recent publications and categorizes them according to five themes: “commoners, women, and outsiders”, “the structural approach”, “state and society”, “China and l'histoire globale ”, and “China and the West…
The Survival of Empire-Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea 1630-1754
Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History
This book examines one of the most important problems concerning Chinese civilization - how was the pattern of stability and continuity of Chinese society and economy achieved and maintained from approximately 800 to 1800. It uses the results of detailed, specialized research about the Chinese landholding system, marketing patterns, the role of the extended family therein, taxation and non-elite social groups in one specific locale to answer ques…
Male Anxiety and Female Chastity
(1990). MALE ANXIETY AND FEMALE CHASTITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHINESE ETHICAL VALUES IN MING-CH'ING TIMES. Ming Studies: Vol. 1990, No. 1, pp. 63-69
City of Broken Promises
Pirates of the South China Coast 1790-1810
Learning, Lineages, and Locality in Late Imperial China. A Comparative Study of Education in Huichow (Anhwei) and Foochow (Fukien) 1600-1800 Part 1
Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Learning, Lineages, and Locality in Late Imperial China. A Comparative Study of Education in Huichow (Anhwei) and Foochow (Fukien) 1600-1800 Part 1, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 35, No. 2 (1992), pp. 109-144
Learning, Lineages, and Locality in Late Imperial China. A Comparative Study of Education in Huichow (Anhwei) and Foochow (Fukien) 1600-1800. Part II
Learning, Lineages, and Locality in Late Imperial China
LEARNING, LINEAGES, AND LOCALITY IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA A comparative study of education in Huichow (Anhwei) and Foochow (Fukien) 1600-1800 PART I BY HARRIET T. ZURNDORFER (Sinologisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands) In late imperial China the prefectures of Huichow (Anhwei) and Foochow (Fukien) were especially significant among the more academically outstanding localities'). It is well-known, that already in the Sun…
“One Adam Having Driven Us Out of Paradise, Another has Driven Us Out of China” Yang Kuang-Hsien's Challenge of Adam Schall Von Bell
Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History
This book examines one of the most important problems concerning Chinese civilization - how was the pattern of stability and continuity of Chinese society and economy achieved and maintained from approximately 800 to 1800. It uses the results of detailed, specialized research about the Chinese landholding system, marketing patterns, the role of the extended family therein, taxation and non-elite social groups in one specific locale to answer ques…
Jesho and East Asia
a way, this phenomenon may be ascribed to a number of trends that were already evolving at the time ofJESHO's inauguration. During the late 1950s, it became clear that the study of East Asian civilization in the West was following one of two paths. As China and Japan (and Korea, of course) became caught up in the harsh realities of the Cold War, students and scholars seemed forced to choose between two curricula: either examining these countries'…
Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China
China Bibliography
This volume serves as a guide to all facets of China study: from advice on choosing an appropriate literary dictionary to finding the most recent yearbooks that offer statistical data about the contemporary economy. China Bibliography does not restrict itself to one particular 'discipline', but considers the development of Chinese civilization as a whole, from its imperial beginnings to the present, and therefore demonstrates how one would find i…
From Local History to Cultural History Reflections on Some Recent Publications
China and “Modernity”
The central focus of this paper is the lack of impact Euro-centric theories of development have made on twentieth century historical writing by leading Chinese and Japanese scholars. The author reviews publications by three important historians, Naitō Konan, Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, and Yü Ying-shih, all of whom attempt to locate China's first experience with “modernity” prior to nineteenth or twentieth century encounters with the West. Although all thr…
Women's History in Global Perspective
A Ming Society
Money, Prices, and Precious Metals
Another Look at China, Money, Silver, and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis
Dans cet article l'A traite de la Chine au XVIIe s. ap. J.-C. et de sa politique monetaire en particulier. Il en explique l'origine et l'apparition des pieces de monnaie en argent qui a fait du XVIIe siecle le siecle de l'argent(1550-1650) puis la depression sous le regne de l'empereur Kangxi. L'A conclut par quelques remarques sur la politique economique du gouvernement chinois des annees presentes
Precious Records
Chinese Women in the Imperial Past
The present volume is the result of a Leiden University workshop on women in imperial China by a group of international scholars. In recent years Chinese women and gender studies have attracted more and more attention, and this book is one of the first efforts to focus on major aspects of this subject. It covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, including bibliography, demography, history, legal studies, literature, history of medicine, and…
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