seventeenth male-female contemporary eighteenth-century

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Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction
Keith McMahon

Duke University Press, 1995

Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of ...

Henri Bergson: Key Writings (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
Henri Bergson

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002

InDesign Production Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

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Alistair Dabbs, Anne-Marie Concepcion, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

Possibilities and Inspiration
This book really won't teach you the basics of Adobe's layout program. Beyond that, it contains how-to-do recipes that make tasks seem easier. In fact, the book is more than a collection of recipes - it's inspiration for you when you want your layouts to look out of the ordinary. Flip through the pages, and you'll be amazed at the possibilities - yes, this book is a collection of possibilities. ...

Causality and Containment in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction (Toung Pao Monographie 15)
Keith McMahon

Brill Academic Publishers, 1988

A number of features characterize late Ming vernacular fiction as part of the general cultural expansion of that period. These features centrally include the exposition of sexual transgression and the function of containment, by which is meant the ideology of the control of desires. The late Ming writers are studiously devoted to illustrating minute, obscene, or erotic details that belief the decorum of the orthodox surface. ...

Indesign Production Cookbook
Alistair (EDT)/ McMahon, Ken/ Martin, Keith/ Concepcion, Anne-Marie Dabbs

Oreilly & Associates Inc, 2005

The Fall of the God of Money
Kieth McMahon

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002

In this first truly cross-cultural study of opium, Keith McMahon considers the perspectives of both smokers and non-smokers from China and the Euro-West and from both sides of the issue of opium prohibition. The author stages a dramatic confrontation between the Chinese opium user and the Euro-Westerner who saw in opium the image of an uncanny Asiatic menace. The rise of the opium demon meant the fall of the god of money, that is, Chinese money, ...