Paola Zamperini

Biographic Data

ID6183505
NAMEPaola Zamperini
GIVEN NAMESPaola
FAMILY NAMEZamperini
SIGNATUREZAMPERINI P
AFFILIATIONSPaola Zamperini is currently carrying out her post doctorate at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy of Academia Sinica and in the Fall of 2001 will start teaching Chinese literature and culture at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her recent publications include “Untamed Hearts: Eros and Suicide in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction,” in the special issue of Nan Nü, a journal on gender in premodern China and Love and Death, edited by Paul Ropp, Harriet...
ORCID0000-0002-8211-4575
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Interviews with Scholars of the Ming

    Paola Zamperini, Katherine CarlitzARTICLEMing Studies2021References: 3

    I graduated from UCLA in 1966, having majored in Russian for the first two years (this involved some Greek, required for the Russian major), but then, after reading a thrilling article on the DNA d

  • The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China

    Paola ZamperiniARTICLEJournal of Chinese Literature and…2019Cited by: 1

    Li Xiaorong's newest book, The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China, in many ways complements and enriches the literary and gender dimensions engaged in her equally luminous 2012 monograph, Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China: Transforming the Inner Chambers. In her earlier work, Li focused on the trope of guige 閨閣 (inner chambers) as the pivot of her analysis of Ming-Qing women's poetry, probing its gendered implications as a physical, …

  • Lost Bodies

    Paola ZamperiniBOOKLost bodies2010

    This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from innocence to sex-work and beyond. This crucial angle allows the author to paint a picture of gender identity, sexuality, and desire that is at once …

  • Elective Affinities. Literary Soul Mates and the Marketplace in late Qing Fiction

    Paola ZamperiniARTICLELate imperial China2007

    Elective Affinities: Literary Soul Mates and the Marketplace in late Qing Fiction Paola Zamperini There is a saying: "For whom do you act, and who will pay attention to you?" When Zhong-zi Qi died, Bo Ya never played his harp again. Why was that? A man does something for the sake of someone who understands him, as a woman adorns herself for someone who is attracted to her.1 In the triangle of author, work, and public the last is no passive part, …

  • Making Fashion Work

    Paola ZamperiniARTICLEpositions asia critique2003

    Research Article| May 01 2003 Making Fashion Work: Interview with Sophie Hong Paola Zamperini Paola Zamperini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (2): 511–520. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-2-511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paola Zamperini; Making Fashion Work: Interview with Sophie Hong. positions 1 May 2003; 11 (2): 511–520. do…

  • On Their Dress They Wore a Body

    Paola ZamperiniARTICLEpositions asia critique2003Cited by: 3References: 4

    Research Article| May 01 2003 On Their Dress They Wore a Body: Fashion and Identity in Late Qing Shanghai Paola Zamperini Paola Zamperini Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (2): 301–330. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-2-301 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paola Zamperini; On Their Dress They Wore a Body: Fashion and Identity in Late …

  • Passionate Women

    Paul Ropp, Paola Zamperini et al.EDITORBOOKPassionate Women2001

    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…

  • Untamed Hearts

    Paola ZamperiniARTICLENAN Nü2001

    In Chinese fiction there are heroines who use suicide as a vehicle to convey to eternity the strength of their passions, from love to hatred, from jealousy to thirst for revenge. The present paper is an exploration of late imperial literary representations which depict women's suicide as an act of passion and self-reassertion: this act, rather than being constructed as defeat in the face of adversities, a response to abuse suffered, or as a last …

  • Clothes That Matter

    Paola ZamperiniARTICLEFashion Theory2001Cited by: 1References: 4

    (2001). Clothes That Matter: Fashioning Modernity in Late Qing Novels. Fashion Theory: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 195-214

  • But i nEver Learned To Waltz

    Paola ZamperiniARTICLENAN Nü1999

    This article illustrates the complex web of agency, voice, compliance, and resistance that men and women alike wove and unraveled in (re)presenting fictional and nonfictional versions of the education and the life-cycle of courtesans at the turn of last century. On the one hand, it shows how Chinese male novelists appropriate the long-standing cliche of the courtesan to expand (albeit in a limited way) and exoticize the horizons of female subject…