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Title: | Review of Giovanni Vitiello. 'The Libertine's Friend: Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China'. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 312 pp. $45.00 cloth, ISBN 9780226857923; $7.00 to $36.00 E-format, ISBN 9780226857954 | Contributor(s): | Wu, Cuncun (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | DOI: | 10.1163/15685268-0152P0007 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15681 | Abstract: | In setting out the aims of 'The Libertine's Friend' in his introduction, Giovanni Vitiello describes his work as a history of male homoeroticism in pre-modern China, with a focus on what may be learned from "ideologies of masculinity and romantic love as they are represented in fictional works spanning roughly three hundred years - from 'Stories from the Water Margin to Precious Mirror for Ranking Flowers', printed in 1550 and 1849, respectively" (p. 1). The resulting volume is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of the status of male homoeroticism in late imperial literati culture: a thorough, thoughtful and witty study representing two decades of patient work with the historical sources while at the same time taking careful note of developments in contemporary scholarship and debate. | Publication Type: | Review | Source of Publication: | Nan Nu, 15(2), p. 342-345 | Publisher: | Brill | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1568-5268 1387-6805 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200517 Literature in Chinese 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470515 Literature in Chinese 440504 Gender relations |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950502 Understanding Asias Past 950203 Languages and Literature |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130702 Understanding Asia’s past 130203 Literature |
HERDC Category Description: | D3 Review of Single Work |
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