Research Catalog

Title

Rebellion and its enemies in late imperial China : militarization and social structure, 1796-1864 / Philip A. Kuhn.

Author

Kuhn, Philip A.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

ix, 254 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

In the Mexican Catholic tradition, retablos are ornamental structures made of carved wood framing an oil painting of a devotional image, usually a patron saint. Acclaimed author and essayist Rigoberto González commemorates the passion and the pain of these carvings in his new volume Red-Inked Retablos, a moving memoir of human experience and thought. González continues to expand his oeuvre on mariposa (literally, "butterfly") memory, a genre he pioneered in which Chicano/a writers openly address non-traditional sexuality. For González, mariposa memory is important testimony not only about reconfiguring personal identity in relation to masculinity, culture, and religion. It's also about highlighting values like education, shaping a sex-positive discourse, and exercising agency through a public voice. It's about making the queer experience a Chicano experience and the Chicano experience a queer one.--From publisher description.

Series Statement

Harvard East Asian series ; 49

Uniform Title

Harvard East Asian series ; 49.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• China > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "With a new preface by the author"--Cover.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [227]-239.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Self-portraits. The Truman Capote aria ; Confessions of a gay Catholic boy ; Orphans in the terrorist world ; Easter Rock: 1983 ; Memory lessons, memory lesions -- Studies. Andrés Montoya: the ice worker still sings ; The poet Ai: an appreciation ; Beloved jotoranos ; Lullaby from Thomas James ; Roxana's melody -- Speeches. To the writer, to the activist, to the citizen ; The Gay Brown Beret Suite -- Toward a mariposa consciousness.

ISBN

0674749545 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^80080470^

OCLC

• 7770371
• SCSB-12330107

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library