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  1. Oct 2021
    1. How was the audience seated in the late Qing [late 19th-early 20th century] teahouse? (56)

      Place for inappropriate behavior, prostitution but later it became more complex as more high-born persons, especially women, came

    2. What kind of an institution was the teahouse--the predecessor for the modern theater (55, 61)?

      Bodily -- loud and not a place for high born women

    3. But perfect symmetry of male and female cross-dressing would have to occur in a context devoid of the gender hierarchy that dictates that women must act like men in order to prove their superiority.” (234)

      In a literature context -- the body problem is less of a problem

    4. Do we have anything like this female literary archetype in Western literature/drama?

      THINK: Jane Austen -- accomplished women want a marriage with an equal, even if it diminishes her access to ambition

      THINK: Hallmark movies, (Devin's comment) If she does not have love she is nothing...

      Dr. L: Chinese woman characteristics are what some men want to develop, look to the "Jarin" because she out does the men. Chinese culture is much more complex when it constructs masculine and feminine codes -- It is not binary

      Abby: 233, marriage is more equal, free from domination patterns of the western tradition

      Devin: mother is powerful figure, children owe the woman so much, marriage is access to that power... don't diminish the desire to marry

  2. Mar 2021
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      The relationship dynamics here are complex, I don't know if there is a single answer to this question...

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      The symbolism here is shocking

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      Double bind situation

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