| Description |
vii, 431 p. |
| Series |
Women and gender in China studies, 1877-5772 ; v. 4 |
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Women and gender in China studies ; v. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Grace S. Fong -- Writing and illness: a feminine condition in women's poetry of the Ming and Qing / Grace S. Fong -- Lamenting the dead: women's performance of grief in late imperial China / Anne E. McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature". |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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Women and literature -- China -- History.
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Women -- China -- Intellectual life.
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Women authors, Chinese -- Political and social views.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fong, Grace S., 1948-
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Widmer, Ellen.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004185210 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9789004190269 (electronic bk.) |
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