Professor Ko’s research interest is the everyday lives of women in China –along with the domestic objects they made by hand–as a significant part of country’s cultural, economic and political development. She works at the intersections of anthropology, history, and women’s studies.
Ko’s recent book, Cinderella Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding, published in 2005, shattered the popular conception of footbinding as a tool to oppress women and demonstrated that it was instead a source of female identity, purpose, pride, and power. It won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, Recently, she has been turning her attention to the skills of women’s artisans such as embroiderers, stone carvers, and ceramic artists. Her research during spring semester, 2004, as a senior fellow at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center’s Institute for International Research in Nanjing, focused on the importance of ancient art of silk-weaving for a study of the dress-making tradition and domestic work culture in China’s silk industry region. More recently, as a fellow at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, England, in spring 2007, she researched ancient swordsmith legends for insights into the relations between bodily investments and transformation of matter.
In addition to Cinderella’s Sisters, Ko has written numerous books and publications, including “Between the Boudoir and the Global Market: Shen Shou, Embroidery and Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” in Looking Modern (forthcoming), Every Step a Lotus (2001), and Teachers of the Inner Chambers (1994). She is also co-editor of Women and Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan.
Ko’s courses include Chinese cultural history, body histories, women and culture in 17th century China, and Confucian cultures.
Ko earned undergraduate and advanced degrees at Stanford University, including the doctorate. She has received a number of fellowships and awards. She was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (2000-2001), a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2000-2001) and a fellow at the Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (1999-2000). Before joining the Barnard faculty in 2001, Professor Ko taught at Rutgers University.
Rejecting popular image and accepted scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from oppressed or silenced. As writers, readers, editors, and teachers, these women created a rich culture and meaningful existence from within the constraints of the male-dominated Confucian system. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology, practice, and self-perception. Born out of curiosity about how premodern Chinese women lived, this book proposes a new way to conceptualize China's past. This reconception rests on the premise that by understanding how women lived, we better grasp the dynamics of gender relations and gain a more complete knowledge of the values of Chinese culture, the functioning of Chinese society, and the nature of historical change. The book examines three types of women's communities that developed in this environment: domestic, social, and public. Women from different families, age groups, and social stations were brought together by their shared love of poetry and common concerns as women. Though important at the time, most of these ties proved fragile and transitory because of women's inherently ambivalent position. The author argues that the gender system identified women both by their shared gender, or women-as-same, and by their social station, or women-as-different. This contradiction accorded women freedoms within their own limited spheres, but these spheres were fragmented and often demarcated by the class of male kin. As a result, even the most mobile and articulate of women had noinstitutional means of launching fundamental attacks on the gender system.
「闺塾师」中有个轶闻让我印象非常深刻:晚明江南有个叫冯云将的公子,一次偶遇看上了小青,便纳为妾侍,但畏惧家中悍妻崔氏,不敢告知;后因觉得妻子并为有所出,便把小青带回了家;不久,冯公子远游,小青被崔氏隔离出冯家,幽禁在西湖边上的别院里,小青只可独怜孤影,自作...
评分「闺塾师」中有个轶闻让我印象非常深刻:晚明江南有个叫冯云将的公子,一次偶遇看上了小青,便纳为妾侍,但畏惧家中悍妻崔氏,不敢告知;后因觉得妻子并为有所出,便把小青带回了家;不久,冯公子远游,小青被崔氏隔离出冯家,幽禁在西湖边上的别院里,小青只可独怜孤影,自作...
评分 评分僅以46頁其中一段為例: 原文:“There is also the frequent admonition that excess betrays vulgarity.”居然翻譯成:“還有一些勸告,其庸俗性表現的更過分。” 先不說您語法了,單說把vulgar譯成“庸俗”就完全無視語境吧?!附庸風雅這種正面向上積極健康有益市民文化...
评分从一开始就不喜欢才女,有关才女的种种传闻,我都觉得做作而虚伪。才女是伪装成特立独行的讨好,是对人带答不理的撒娇小猫。 你说这是嫉妒,也可以。 在男人记述的历史里,才女更是一种符合他们想象的产物,美丽、柔弱、体贴、风趣……还会在来不及成黄脸婆之前香消玉殒,给...
其实还是夹缝中生存…我非常喜欢高老师对Bourdieu理论的运用,嗯再加上他对cultural capital的论述,实在是太适合写明末清初的女画家们了……
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评分就是红楼梦啊。。。
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评分唉。。其实我的兴趣就在性别史,可为什么我一直在写民族主义的论文。。
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