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CEAS Humanities Colloquium

The Song dynasty (10th-13th centuries) was a time of dramatic social and cultural change, not least in the realm of gender relations. In this talk, I examine forms emotional expression, particularly in the contexts of love and romance, that were commonly used in this period. What were the accepted parameters for the expression of love or attachment, and to what extent did such expressions shift over the course of this period?

Beverly Bossler is Professor of History, Chair of the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at University of California. Her research focuses on social, intellectual, and gender history of China in Middle Period China (Tang, Song, Yuan).  She is the author of Powerful Relations (1998) and Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity in China, 1000-1400 (2013), and the editor of Gender & Chinese History: Transformative Encounters (2015)