The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming Through Qing (Women and Gender in China Studies, Band 4) - Hardcover

Buch 7 von 15: Women and Gender in China Studies
 
9789004185210: The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming Through Qing (Women and Gender in China Studies, Band 4)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004185216 ISBN 13: 9789004185210
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2010

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Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women's experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and religion. Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize these materials. They question previous assumptions about women's lives and abilities, open up new critical space in Chinese literary history and offer new perspectives on China's culture and society.

"This volume rewrites the history of Chinese women's literature by taking a truly inter-disciplinary (instead of merely multi-disciplinary) approach. In so doing, it ends up illuminating the centrality of writing women to the social, political, and intellectual lives of the Chinese empire from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries."
Prof. Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (California, 2005).

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Grace S. Fong (Ph.D. 1984, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Chinese Literature at McGill University. She has published extensively on classical Chinese poetry and women's writings in the Ming and Qing dynasties including Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2008)

Ellen Widmer (Ph.D. 1981, Harvard) is Professor of Chinese Studies at Wellesley College. She has published numerous articles on late imperial Chinese women, as well as a monograph entitled The Beauty and The Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth Century China (Harvard 2006).

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004185216
ISBN 13 
9789004185210
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
434
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