Valentina Boretti
Biographic Data
| ID | 698496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Boretti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Boretti |
| SIGNATURE | BORETTI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1171-9957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Instructing Adults, Attracting Children
From the early twentieth century, a discourse developed in China whereby children were assets for national rejuvenation, and toys were crucial to shaping them. The relevance of childhood and toys was however also deployed to tutor adults: the present article uses toy displays as an entry point to analyse this question. Discussing exhibitions staged by educational and governmental agencies in the 1920s and 1930s, it examines efforts to shift the p…
The quasi-genderless heresy
This paper looks at the professional alternatives that Buddhism offered to women by analysing the important role played by a female master in the as yet little studied Dhūta movement, a form of 'heretical' Chan Buddhism that flourished during the final years of the Jin dynasty and afterwards in the Yuan dynasty. By examining the descriptions of female master Jizhao and male master Puguang, as seen in epitaphs composed by officers-literati and pre…
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The quasi-genderless heresy
This paper looks at the professional alternatives that Buddhism offered to women by analysing the important role played by a female master in the as yet little studied Dhūta movement, a form of 'heretical' Chan Buddhism that flourished during the final years of the Jin dynasty and afterwards in the Yuan dynasty. By examining the descriptions of female master Jizhao and male master Puguang, as seen in epitaphs composed by officers-literati and pre…
Instructing Adults, Attracting Children
From the early twentieth century, a discourse developed in China whereby children were assets for national rejuvenation, and toys were crucial to shaping them. The relevance of childhood and toys was however also deployed to tutor adults: the present article uses toy displays as an entry point to analyse this question. Discussing exhibitions staged by educational and governmental agencies in the 1920s and 1930s, it examines efforts to shift the p…
Art (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Buddhism (1 work) · China (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Early childhood education (1 work) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (1 work) · Exhibition (1 work)