Rebecca Doran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3829459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Doran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Doran |
| SIGNATURE | DORAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The White Qia 帢 in the Wei-Jin Period
The qia hat has a complex history in medieval China. Since its emergence in the early third century CE, the hat appeared in various contexts and was imbued with a range of symbolic meanings. The white qia especially garnered associations relating to its color, including its participation in new aesthetic paradigms, its condemnation as an inauspicious political portent, its adoption as mourning dress, and its appearance as a narrative symbol conno…
Women in Tang China, written by Bret Hinsch
Bret Hinsch. Women in Tang China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 256 pp. US$99/£76. ISBN 9781538134894Women in Tang China provides an engaging and multi-layered survey of women’s roles, history, and contributions in the Tang period (618–907). The latest addition to Bret Hinsch’s instructive and valuable series of works on women and gender in China, Women in Tang China utilizes a wide range of primary and secondary sources in Chinese, Jap…
Animals through Chinese History
Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911. Edited by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, and Dagmar Schäfer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 277. $105
Cat Demon, Gender, and Religious Practice
This paper examines and contextualizes rituals and beliefs surrounding the cat demon (maogui 貓鬼). While the demon has been briefly discussed or referenced in earlier scholarship, there as yet exists no systematic attempt to understand how it is treated in various sources. The paper approaches the complex of practices and ideas associated with the cat demon as a unique and richly informative cultural phenomenon that is suggestive of tensions relat…
Fashion and Historical Imagination
Sun Shou (d. 159), the vilified and powerful wife of notorious regent to the throne Liang Ji (d. 159), is famous for her invention of novel fashions, including new styles of eyebrow, makeup, and hair, and even new ways of walking and smiling. In Hou Hanshu and elsewhere, Sun Shou’s invention of these styles plays an important role in constructing a condemnatory historical judgment of her character, which is informed by systems of correlative cosm…
Royal Wet Nurses in Seventh- and Early Eighth-Century China
The women who served as wet nurses to powerful and in some cases notorious members of the Tang royal family appear in written materials in various capacities in relation to prominent historical actors. An analysis of historical narratives involving these women indicates that their portrayals were strongly influenced by the historian’s mode of moral assessment, in particular, the historical judgment meted out upon their controversial charges. The …
Tales from Tang Dynasty China
Taiping guangji 太平廣記 has long been recognized as a critical source for scholars and students of Tang and pre-Tang literature and culture. Compiled in the late tenth century, the massive compendium
Altogether Another Flavor of Emotion to Torment a Man”
Liu Yong’s ci -poems and the male persona depicted in them are often regarded as truthful portrayals of Liu Yong the man. There is in fact no evidence to support such a view. This essay offers a new approach to Liu’s “romantic” ci , analyzing this group of song-lyrics as the expression of a typological love narrative, and proposes that the love narrative best defines and unifies them. It seeks to unpack the components and the significance of the …
"Perspective and Appreciation in Xie Lingyun's "Imitations of the Crown Prince of Wei's Gatherings in Ye
This paper explores the construction of poetic voice and the meaning(s) of imitation in Xie Lingyun's series "Imitations of the Crown Prince of Wei's Gatherings in Ye: Eight Poems." The series looks back upon a famous moment in literary history, namely, the congregation of the Jian'an Masters at the Cao-Wei court in the early second century CE. Through close analysis of the poems in the series, the paper argues that, instead of imitating the dist…
The Non-Dating of Jubilees
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The Non-Dating of Jubilees
"Perspective and Appreciation in Xie Lingyun's "Imitations of the Crown Prince of Wei's Gatherings in Ye
This paper explores the construction of poetic voice and the meaning(s) of imitation in Xie Lingyun's series "Imitations of the Crown Prince of Wei's Gatherings in Ye: Eight Poems." The series looks back upon a famous moment in literary history, namely, the congregation of the Jian'an Masters at the Cao-Wei court in the early second century CE. Through close analysis of the poems in the series, the paper argues that, instead of imitating the dist…
Altogether Another Flavor of Emotion to Torment a Man”
Liu Yong’s ci -poems and the male persona depicted in them are often regarded as truthful portrayals of Liu Yong the man. There is in fact no evidence to support such a view. This essay offers a new approach to Liu’s “romantic” ci , analyzing this group of song-lyrics as the expression of a typological love narrative, and proposes that the love narrative best defines and unifies them. It seeks to unpack the components and the significance of the …
Tales from Tang Dynasty China
Taiping guangji 太平廣記 has long been recognized as a critical source for scholars and students of Tang and pre-Tang literature and culture. Compiled in the late tenth century, the massive compendium
Royal Wet Nurses in Seventh- and Early Eighth-Century China
The women who served as wet nurses to powerful and in some cases notorious members of the Tang royal family appear in written materials in various capacities in relation to prominent historical actors. An analysis of historical narratives involving these women indicates that their portrayals were strongly influenced by the historian’s mode of moral assessment, in particular, the historical judgment meted out upon their controversial charges. The …
Fashion and Historical Imagination
Sun Shou (d. 159), the vilified and powerful wife of notorious regent to the throne Liang Ji (d. 159), is famous for her invention of novel fashions, including new styles of eyebrow, makeup, and hair, and even new ways of walking and smiling. In Hou Hanshu and elsewhere, Sun Shou’s invention of these styles plays an important role in constructing a condemnatory historical judgment of her character, which is informed by systems of correlative cosm…
Women in Tang China, written by Bret Hinsch
Bret Hinsch. Women in Tang China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 256 pp. US$99/£76. ISBN 9781538134894Women in Tang China provides an engaging and multi-layered survey of women’s roles, history, and contributions in the Tang period (618–907). The latest addition to Bret Hinsch’s instructive and valuable series of works on women and gender in China, Women in Tang China utilizes a wide range of primary and secondary sources in Chinese, Jap…
Animals through Chinese History
Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911. Edited by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, and Dagmar Schäfer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 277. $105
Cat Demon, Gender, and Religious Practice
This paper examines and contextualizes rituals and beliefs surrounding the cat demon (maogui 貓鬼). While the demon has been briefly discussed or referenced in earlier scholarship, there as yet exists no systematic attempt to understand how it is treated in various sources. The paper approaches the complex of practices and ideas associated with the cat demon as a unique and richly informative cultural phenomenon that is suggestive of tensions relat…
The White Qia 帢 in the Wei-Jin Period
The qia hat has a complex history in medieval China. Since its emergence in the early third century CE, the hat appeared in various contexts and was imbued with a range of symbolic meanings. The white qia especially garnered associations relating to its color, including its participation in new aesthetic paradigms, its condemnation as an inauspicious political portent, its adoption as mourning dress, and its appearance as a narrative symbol conno…
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