The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender

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Covering the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender presents a comprehensive overview of the complexity of gender disparity in Chinese thought and culture. Divided into four main sections, an international group of experts in Chinese Studies write on Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist approaches to gender relations. Each section includes a general introduction, a set of authoritative articles written by leading scholars and comprehensive bibliographies, designed to provide the non-specialist with a practical and broad overview. Beginning with the Ancient and Medieval period before moving on to Modern and Contemporary approaches, specially commissioned chapters include Pre-Qin canonical texts, women in early Chinese ethics, the yin-yang gender dynamic and the Buddhist understanding of the conception of gender. Considering why the philosophy of women and gender dynamics in Chinese thought is rarely confronted, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender is a pioneering cross-disciplinary introduction to Chinese philosophy’s intersection with gender studies. By bridging the fields of Chinese philosophy, religion, intellectual history, feminism, and gender studies, this cutting-edge volume fills a great need in the current literature on Chinese philosophy and provides student and scholars with an invaluable research resource to a growing field. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Notes on Contributors Acknowledgment Introduction I. bringing the past into the present II. multiculturalism and liberal feminism: is the rift between them necessary? III. development of gender discourse in chinese culture and thought IV. purpose of this volume and its four main parts V. what’s next? a way forward Part I Confucian Approaches: Ancient and Medieval Chapter One Women and Moral Dilemmas in Early Chinese Narrative Chapter Two Discourses on Women from the Classical Period to the Song: An Integrated Approach I. INTRODUCTION II. APPROACHING “WOMAN” THROUGH TEXTS ACROSS TIME III. SOME FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS IV. BUDDHISM AND ITS EFFECT ON DAOISM FROM HAN TO THE SIX DYNASTIES PERIOD V. PERSONAL AGENDA AND PHILOSOPHY DURING TANG DYNASTY (618–907) VI. SONG DYNASTY SEEN THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL AGENDA: SOCIOPOLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS SURVIVAL VII. CONCLUSION: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN THE SYNCRETISM-SYNTHESIS OF PHILOSOPHIES Chapter Three Neo-Confucians and Zhu Xi on Family and Women: Challenges and Potentials I. Unearthing new evidence II. ZHU XI ON FAMILY AND WOMEN III. THE LI-QI, YIN-YANG, DYADIC RELATION: TWO INCONSISTENT IMPLICATIONS IV. CONCLUSION Chapter Four The Dream of Sagehood: A Re-Examination of Queen Sohae’s Naehoon I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII Part II Confucian Approaches: Modern and Contemporary Chapter Five Close Personal Relationships and the Situated Self: The Confucian Analects and Feminist Philosophy I. FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY’S SITUATED SELF Ii. The five relationships in early confucian philosophy III. FILIAL PIETY IN THE ANALECTS IV. FRIENDSHIP IN THE ANALECTS V. RELATIONAL COMPLEXITIES Chapter Six Care and Justice: Reading Mencius, Kant, and Gilligan Comparatively I II Chapter Seven Moral Reasoning: The Female Way and the Xunzian Way I. XUNZI’S VIEW OF WOMEN’S MORAL REASONING II. THE ROLES THAT AFFECT AND CONTEXT PLAY IN XUNZI’S CONCEPTION OF MORAL REASONING III. DO CONFUCIANS REALLY CARE? IV. CONCLUSION Chapter Eight Multiculturalism and Feminism Revisited: A Hybridized Confucian Care Ethic Chapter Nine Would Confucianism Allow Two Men to Share a Peach? Compatibility between Ancient Confucianism and Homosexuality I. INTRODUCTION II. THE TERM “HOMOSEXUALITY” III. HOMOSEXUALITY IN ANCIENT CHINA IV. CONFUCIAN REASONS SUPPORTING THE PERMISSIBILITY OF HOMOSEXUALITY V. EXTRINSIC PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALITY VI. CONCLUSION Part III Daoist Approaches Chapter Ten Yinyang Gender Dynamics: Lived Bodies, Rhythmical Changes, and Cultural Performances1 I. EMBODYING YIN AND EMBRACING YANG: BEYOND THE SEX AND GENDER BINARY II. YINYANG FLUIDITY AND INTEGRATION: CROSSING THE MALE AND FEMALE BOUNDARY III. YINYANG GENDER DYNAMICS: A SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE CREATIVITY OF WOMAN IV. CONCLUSION Chapter Eleven On the Dao of Ci . (Feminine/Female) in the Daodejing«...» I. INTRODUCTION II. How is the feminine identified in the classical chinese tradition? III. THREE MAJOR READINGS OF THE FEMININE IN THE DAODEJING IV. THE PERVASIVENESS OF THE WATER METAPHOR IN THE DAODEJING V. THE PRINCIPLE OF ABIDING BY THE FEMININE/FEMALE Vi. DIFFERING COMPORTMENTS TOWARD CI AND XIONG VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS Chapter Twelve To Beget and to Forget: On the Transformative Power of the Two Feminine Images of Dao in the Laozi* I. THE MOTHER AND THE MYSTERIOUS FEMALE II. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEMALE FOR GROWTH AND DEVELoPMENT III. MYSTICISM AND BEYOND: FORGETTING AND NOURISHING Chapter Thirteen The Yijing, Gender, and the Ethics of Nature I. INITIAL QUESTIONS: GENDER, NATURE, AND “CHINESE THOUGHT”1 II. A PRE- AND POST-PATRIARCHAL BOOK OF CHANGES? III. THE YIJING AS DIVINATION, PROPHECY, AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE IV. LEARNING FROM NATURE THROUGH THE DIALECTICAL IMAGE V. THE YIJING, GENDER, AND AN AFFECTIVE-REFLECTIVE ETHICS OF NATURE VI. CONCLUSION Chapter Fourteen Daoism and the LGBT Community Part IV Buddhist Approaches Chapter Fifteen Buddhist Nondualism: Deconstructing Gender and Other Delusions of the Discriminating Mind through Awareness Chapter sixteen Non-Self, Agency, and Women: Buddhism’s Modern Transformation I. INTRODUCTION II. BUDDHIST TEACHING OF NON-SELF AND EMPTINESS III. TEXTS AND TENSIONS: BUDDHIST TEXTS ON WOMEN IV. BUDDHISM’S MODERN TRANSFORMATION V. CONCLUSION Bibliography Chapter seventeen “The Bodhisattva’s Path” as Gender-Neutral Practices: A Case Study of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Community in Taiwa I. TZU CHI FOUNDATION: THE BACKGROUND II. PROMINENCE OF MATERNAL VALUES III. GENDER CROSSING IV. discussion V. CONCLUSION Chapter Eighteen Bhik.uni Chao-Hwei’s Buddhist-Feminist Social Ethics I. FROM ANIMAL PROTECTION TO GENDER EQUALITY WITHIN THE MONASTIC SANGHA II. UNDERSTANDING THE “CO-ARISING” OF LGBT AS A DEPRIVED AND OPPRESSED GROUP III. “MIDDLE WAY” APPROACH: BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE ON LOVE AND SEX IV. PROTECTION OF BEINGS: BUDDHIST REASONS FOR SUPPORTING LGBT RIGHTS V. SIGNIFICANCE OF CHAO-HWEI’S STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH SAME-SEX COUPLES VI. BHIKs. UNi- CHAO-HWEI’S BUDDHIST-FEMINIST SOCIAL ETHICS Index