Reading a book is an act of conjuration. When we open books we raise the dead to newlife,jump across spectacular gaps in space and time,release into the atmosphere concepts and ambitions long forgotten,experience the ...Reading a book is an act of conjuration. When we open books we raise the dead to newlife,jump across spectacular gaps in space and time,release into the atmosphere concepts and ambitions long forgotten,experience the griefs and joys of distant strangers. We are,in effect,doing the impossible. No wonder,then,展开更多
This article examines the intersection of law, gender, and modernity during the transitional Republican era （1912-49）. It approaches the topic through a critical reading of the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30, and ...This article examines the intersection of law, gender, and modernity during the transitional Republican era （1912-49）. It approaches the topic through a critical reading of the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30, and related commentary on the code by Chinese legal experts. By analyzing the gender assumptions embodied in several newly emergent categories of legal regulation, including legal personhood, minimum marriage age, consent, domicile, surnames, marital property, and child custody, the article＇s line of questioning reveals how gender meanings helped to shape modem concepts like universality, equality, and freedom. The findings illustrate the ways in which Republican civil law broke with late imperial legal and gender norms tied to Confucian patrilineal ideology and in addition established new legal and gender meanings that helped to consolidate Chinese politics on a republican basis and to reconfigure modem gender difference on a conjugal basis.展开更多
Daniel Aaron is a real legend,a great scholar,an excellent chronicler of twentieth century America,and in his The Americanist,we find an excellent autobiography that depicts the changes and vicissitudes of American li...Daniel Aaron is a real legend,a great scholar,an excellent chronicler of twentieth century America,and in his The Americanist,we find an excellent autobiography that depicts the changes and vicissitudes of American literature,life,and politics of the twentieth century from a wise,intelligent,and highly personal perspective.展开更多
文摘Reading a book is an act of conjuration. When we open books we raise the dead to newlife,jump across spectacular gaps in space and time,release into the atmosphere concepts and ambitions long forgotten,experience the griefs and joys of distant strangers. We are,in effect,doing the impossible. No wonder,then,
文摘This article examines the intersection of law, gender, and modernity during the transitional Republican era （1912-49）. It approaches the topic through a critical reading of the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30, and related commentary on the code by Chinese legal experts. By analyzing the gender assumptions embodied in several newly emergent categories of legal regulation, including legal personhood, minimum marriage age, consent, domicile, surnames, marital property, and child custody, the article＇s line of questioning reveals how gender meanings helped to shape modem concepts like universality, equality, and freedom. The findings illustrate the ways in which Republican civil law broke with late imperial legal and gender norms tied to Confucian patrilineal ideology and in addition established new legal and gender meanings that helped to consolidate Chinese politics on a republican basis and to reconfigure modem gender difference on a conjugal basis.
文摘Daniel Aaron is a real legend,a great scholar,an excellent chronicler of twentieth century America,and in his The Americanist,we find an excellent autobiography that depicts the changes and vicissitudes of American literature,life,and politics of the twentieth century from a wise,intelligent,and highly personal perspective.
