Martin W Huang
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin W Huang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin W |
| FAMILY NAME | Huang |
| SIGNATURE | HUANG M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Son's Obligations
This article investigates how sons in the scholar-literati class in late imperial China promoted their mothers as Confucian exemplars. From the position and perspectives of a son, what were the strategies of promotion, and how might these strategies be related to the different social roles Confucian literati were expected to play? Through an examination of sons' written tributes to their mothers in a variety of biographical and commemorative genr…
A Brother Remembers His Sister
Intimate Memory
Confucian Image Politics
The seventeenth century has always been a fascinating period for students of Chinese history; a century spanning from the last few chaotic decades of the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644), known for it
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…
Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China
Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and how they understood masculinity? How did their attitudes in turn shape the martial heroes and other masculine models they constructed? Martin Huang attempts to answer these questions in this valuable work on manhood in late imperial China. He focuses on the ambivalent and often paradoxica…
Negotiating Wifely Virtues
This article attempts to examine how three seventeenth-century literati husbands mourned and wrote about their late wives. It argues that when the biographer of a deceased woman and her grieving husband coincided in the same person, the biographical narrative could be complicated considerably with Confucian biographical conventions of the “exemplary” becoming more likely to be challenged in moments of intensely private grief and, especially,deep …
Male-Male Sexual Bonding and Male Friendship in Late Imperial China
I t I s a c o n s e n s u s s h a r e d b y m a n y scholars of Chinese cultural and gender histories that male-male sexual relationships during the late imperial period were often characterized by a fairly rigid hierarchy based on the differences of symbolic gender identity, social status, and age. That is, such a relationship often involved two men whose respective roles as the “active” (often the penetrator) and the “passive” (often the penetr…
Male Friendship in Ming China
This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called five cardinal human relationships. Why the cult of friendship in Ming China? How was male friendship theorized, practiced and represent…
Male Friendship in Ming China
This introduction provides a historical and theoretical context for the four articles on Ming male friendship. It reviews relevant scholarship and tries to show how the four articles contribute to a better appreciation of the complexities of friendship as it was theorized and practiced by Chinese males in Ming China
A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
This bibliography section of this book Male Friendship in Ming China contains secondary sources, list of reference articles and books. Friendship was an ambiguous concept in late imperial Chinese culture. In orthodox Confucianism, friendship was a relationship unsanctioned by the core Confucian values prioritizing state and family, and as such it was viewed with suspicion and often considered a potential threat. This is probably why among the so-…
Male Friendship and Jiangxue (Philosophical Debates) in Sixteenth-Century China
This article focuses on the significant rise of the status of friendship in sixteenth-century Chinese cultural discourses and the relevant roles played by the jiangxue (philosophical debating) activities on the part of many members of the popular neo-Confucian movement of the School of the Mind. It seeks to demonstrate how the practices of jiangxue helped construct a special cultural and social sphere where male friendships could flourish with gr…
Sage, Hero, Bandit
The sixteenth-century Chinese novel YINGLIE ZHUAN (The Romance of Ming Dynasty heroes) is about the founding of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It has been attributed to Guo Xun (1475–1542), although this attribution has not gone unchallenged (Zheng Xiao, 1984:48; Zheng Pingkun, 1991; Zhu Henfu, 1995: 44–47). This attribution is based on the theory that Guo Xun, a descendant of Guo Ying (1337–1403), who was a general under Zhu Yuanzhang (1328–1398)…
Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China
From Caizi to Yingxiong
Martin W. Huang, From Caizi to Yingxiong: Imagining Masculinities in Two Qing Novels, "Yesou puyan" and "Sanfen meng quan zhuan", Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 25 (Dec., 2003), pp. 59-98
Rereading the Stone
Sentiments of Desire
Literati and Self-Re/Presentation
Introduction 1. The problematic literati self and autobiographical sensibility in the novel 2. The self masqueraded: auto/biographical strategies in The Scholars 3. The self displaced: women and growing up in The Dream of the Red Chamber 4. The self reinvented: memory and forgetfulness in The Humble Words of an Old Rustic Conclusion.
Literati and Self-Re/Presentation
Literati and Self-Re/Presentation
This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century, arguably one of the greatest periods of the genre, focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). The author seeks for answers to the question of why the Chinese novel was becoming increasingl…
Male-Male Sexual Bonding and Male Friendship in Late Imperial China
I t I s a c o n s e n s u s s h a r e d b y m a n y scholars of Chinese cultural and gender histories that male-male sexual relationships during the late imperial period were often characterized by a fairly rigid hierarchy based on the differences of symbolic gender identity, social status, and age. That is, such a relationship often involved two men whose respective roles as the “active” (often the penetrator) and the “passive” (often the penetr…
Intimate Memory
Literati and Self-Re/Presentation
This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century, arguably one of the greatest periods of the genre, focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). The author seeks for answers to the question of why the Chinese novel was becoming increasingl…
Literati and Self-Re/Presentation
Introduction 1. The problematic literati self and autobiographical sensibility in the novel 2. The self masqueraded: auto/biographical strategies in The Scholars 3. The self displaced: women and growing up in The Dream of the Red Chamber 4. The self reinvented: memory and forgetfulness in The Humble Words of an Old Rustic Conclusion.
Literati and Self-Re/Presentation
Sentiments of Desire
Rereading the Stone
From Caizi to Yingxiong
Martin W. Huang, From Caizi to Yingxiong: Imagining Masculinities in Two Qing Novels, "Yesou puyan" and "Sanfen meng quan zhuan", Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 25 (Dec., 2003), pp. 59-98
Sage, Hero, Bandit
The sixteenth-century Chinese novel YINGLIE ZHUAN (The Romance of Ming Dynasty heroes) is about the founding of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It has been attributed to Guo Xun (1475–1542), although this attribution has not gone unchallenged (Zheng Xiao, 1984:48; Zheng Pingkun, 1991; Zhu Henfu, 1995: 44–47). This attribution is based on the theory that Guo Xun, a descendant of Guo Ying (1337–1403), who was a general under Zhu Yuanzhang (1328–1398)…
Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China
Male Friendship in Ming China
This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called five cardinal human relationships. Why the cult of friendship in Ming China? How was male friendship theorized, practiced and represent…
Male Friendship in Ming China
This introduction provides a historical and theoretical context for the four articles on Ming male friendship. It reviews relevant scholarship and tries to show how the four articles contribute to a better appreciation of the complexities of friendship as it was theorized and practiced by Chinese males in Ming China
A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
This bibliography section of this book Male Friendship in Ming China contains secondary sources, list of reference articles and books. Friendship was an ambiguous concept in late imperial Chinese culture. In orthodox Confucianism, friendship was a relationship unsanctioned by the core Confucian values prioritizing state and family, and as such it was viewed with suspicion and often considered a potential threat. This is probably why among the so-…
Male Friendship and Jiangxue (Philosophical Debates) in Sixteenth-Century China
This article focuses on the significant rise of the status of friendship in sixteenth-century Chinese cultural discourses and the relevant roles played by the jiangxue (philosophical debating) activities on the part of many members of the popular neo-Confucian movement of the School of the Mind. It seeks to demonstrate how the practices of jiangxue helped construct a special cultural and social sphere where male friendships could flourish with gr…
Negotiating Wifely Virtues
This article attempts to examine how three seventeenth-century literati husbands mourned and wrote about their late wives. It argues that when the biographer of a deceased woman and her grieving husband coincided in the same person, the biographical narrative could be complicated considerably with Confucian biographical conventions of the “exemplary” becoming more likely to be challenged in moments of intensely private grief and, especially,deep …
Male-Male Sexual Bonding and Male Friendship in Late Imperial China
I t I s a c o n s e n s u s s h a r e d b y m a n y scholars of Chinese cultural and gender histories that male-male sexual relationships during the late imperial period were often characterized by a fairly rigid hierarchy based on the differences of symbolic gender identity, social status, and age. That is, such a relationship often involved two men whose respective roles as the “active” (often the penetrator) and the “passive” (often the penetr…
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…
Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China
Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us about how they viewed themselves as men and how they understood masculinity? How did their attitudes in turn shape the martial heroes and other masculine models they constructed? Martin Huang attempts to answer these questions in this valuable work on manhood in late imperial China. He focuses on the ambivalent and often paradoxica…
Intimate Memory
Confucian Image Politics
The seventeenth century has always been a fascinating period for students of Chinese history; a century spanning from the last few chaotic decades of the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644), known for it
A Brother Remembers His Sister
A Son's Obligations
This article investigates how sons in the scholar-literati class in late imperial China promoted their mothers as Confucian exemplars. From the position and perspectives of a son, what were the strategies of promotion, and how might these strategies be related to the different social roles Confucian literati were expected to play? Through an examination of sons' written tributes to their mothers in a variety of biographical and commemorative genr…
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