Harriet Zurndorfer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5531346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Zurndorfer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Zurndorfer |
| SIGNATURE | ZURNDORFER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Human Trafficking, Beautiful Women, the Land of the Cockaigne, and Burmese Bells: The Significance of the Sexual Reminiscences of the Florentine Merchant Francesco Carletti (1573–1636) in Ragionamenti…
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: Men, Women and Gender in China Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370-1565
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 Cambridge World History of Violence
Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression …
Cambridge World History of Violence
The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, written by Lúcio De Sousa
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: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
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: In Celebration of Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China’s Twentieth Anniversary
Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing. By Keith McMahon, 2016
Escape from the country: The gender politics of Chinese women in pursuit of transnational romance
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…
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: Recent Revisionist Writing in Western Languages About China and East Asian Maritime History During the Period 1500–1630
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 …
Men, Women, Money, and Morality: The Development of China's Sexual Economy
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: Complexities, Exclusivities and Connecting Narratives
The Quest for Gentility in China. Negotiations beyond Gender and Class
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
The Orientation of Jesho's Orient and the Problem of 'Orientalism: Some Reflections on the Occasion of Jesho's Fiftieth Anniversary
This essay traces the fifty-year history of JESHO from its initiation by the Dutch economic historian N.W. Posthumus to the present. It appraises what values and assumptions propelled the Journal's first editors to utilize the expression 'Orient' in the publication's title, and how they coped with the changing vicissitudes of historical writing about 'the Rest' from the 1960s onward, including the impact of 'area studies' in North America. Finall…
Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and Cosmopolitanism in Late Qing China
Beyond Tradition and Modernity is a collection of original essays which considers the complexities behind the dramatic changes generated in China during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century. As men and women literally-or metaphorically- crossed into new geographical worlds, they came to express their understanding of the expanding universe in a variety of ways which cannot be neatly labeled either trad…
Beyond Sinology: New Developments in the Study of Chinese Economic and Social History
Old and New Visions of Ming Society and Culture
Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China
This is a collection of original essays which focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China. It is the first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the May Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female suicide in the wider context of more recent scholarship on women and ge…
Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives
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…
Men, Women, Money, and Morality: The Development of China's Sexual Economy
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…
Escape from the country: The gender politics of Chinese women in pursuit of transnational romance
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…
Women in Chinese Learned Culture: Complexities, Exclusivities and Connecting Narratives
Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History: The Development of Hui-Chou Prefecture 800 to 1800
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…
Conflict and Accommodation in Early Modern East Asia: Essays in Honour of Erik Zürcher
This collection of essays written by his former students and colleagues represent the many foci of interest that Erik Zürcher has shared with them during his tenure as professor at Leiden University. They include discussions of Confucian philosophy, Buddhist and Christian polemics, the spread of Jesuit literature and anti-Christian attitudes among the literati, Ming aphorisms, the Chinese pictorial of skulls and skeletons, the Ch'ien-lung Emperor…
China and “Modernity”: The Uses of the Study of Chinese History in the Past and the Present
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
Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives
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…
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
Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China
This is a collection of original essays which focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China. It is the first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the May Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female suicide in the wider context of more recent scholarship on women and ge…
Old and New Visions of Ming Society and Culture
Beyond Sinology: New Developments in the Study of Chinese Economic and Social History
Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and Cosmopolitanism in Late Qing China
Beyond Tradition and Modernity is a collection of original essays which considers the complexities behind the dramatic changes generated in China during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century. As men and women literally-or metaphorically- crossed into new geographical worlds, they came to express their understanding of the expanding universe in a variety of ways which cannot be neatly labeled either trad…
The Orientation of Jesho's Orient and the Problem of 'Orientalism: Some Reflections on the Occasion of Jesho's Fiftieth Anniversary
This essay traces the fifty-year history of JESHO from its initiation by the Dutch economic historian N.W. Posthumus to the present. It appraises what values and assumptions propelled the Journal's first editors to utilize the expression 'Orient' in the publication's title, and how they coped with the changing vicissitudes of historical writing about 'the Rest' from the 1960s onward, including the impact of 'area studies' in North America. Finall…
The Quest for Gentility in China. Negotiations beyond Gender and Class
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Women in Chinese Learned Culture: Complexities, Exclusivities and Connecting Narratives
Men, Women, Money, and Morality: The Development of China's Sexual Economy
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…
Oceans of History, Seas of Change: Recent Revisionist Writing in Western Languages About China and East Asian Maritime History During the Period 1500–1630
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 …
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
Editor’s Message: In Celebration of Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China’s Twentieth Anniversary
Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing. By Keith McMahon, 2016
Escape from the country: The gender politics of Chinese women in pursuit of transnational romance
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…
Index to NAN NÜ Volumes 1-20 (1999-2018)
The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
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
The Cambridge World History of Violence
Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression …
Cambridge World History of Violence
History (22 works) · China (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works)