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.
Explicitly challenging the May Forth narration of women as victims and slaves under the Feudal system, this work suggests a dynamic tripartite model to study women of the Ming-Qing China: theory or ideal norms, practice, and self-perception (based on Scott...
评分「闺塾师」中,最让我印象深刻的莫过于「牡丹亭」。那是明代大匠汤显祖的作品。其实从未完整或深刻地去品读这部作品,在有机会认真读文学的时候,我更心向往于那些慷慨激昂或沉稳道来的奏折,对这部剧本的印象也不过停留在执拗的杜丽娘,或是那句“原来姹紫嫣红开遍,似这...
评分几个月前读《再生缘》,看到孟丽君花烛潜逃之前,自写真容,中有一句“湘裙半舞见金莲”。自写真容无疑是从《牡丹亭》里杜丽娘那儿衍化出来,而在遮蔽物下微微露出的小脚这个意象在前人的描写里更为常见。《香莲品藻》里提到的小脚的三上三中三下九种好处,这“三下”就是帘下...
评分高彦颐还有一本著作,就是《缠足:“金莲崇拜”盛极而衰的演变》,我还没有看到。但是从闺塾师这里可以看到一些相同的观点。高彦颐认为五四时期的妇女史观过于强调传统与现代的对立以及传统妇女形象的受害形象,忽略了古代女性在生活中可能扮演的主动角色,及当时女性本...
评分挑战传统的五四妇女史观:传统社会的女性的历史就是压迫史,女性作为男性的附庸,缠足表现尤其突出,被解读为取悦男性而残害女性健康。 作者先从规范上谈儒家对女性的要求,即三从;然后从具体实践中去发现三从是如何被践行的;再就是从女性本身入手,从她们诗文书信中发掘她们...
不煩解釋。
评分某种程度上修正得有点过头,当然因为是研究的上层女性,她们因阶级差别享有一定的自由可以理解,但这极少数的女性只能使我们对古代妇女的认识更多样化,不能改变妇女被压迫这一总体的认识。
评分不煩解釋。
评分对五四史观的挑战
评分經濟角度看明清女性角色多樣化發展
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