Writing Women in Late Imperial China /

Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called attention to several hundred whose works have survived. Coming from the fields of literature, history, art history, and comparative literature, the fourteen contributors t...

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Otros Autores: Armstrong, Nancy (Contribuidor), Carlitz, Katherine (Contribuidor), Chang, Kang-i Sun (Contribuidor, Editor ), Fong, Grace S. (Contribuidor), Hung, Wu (Contribuidor), Ko, Dorothy (Contribuidor), Li, Wai-yee (Contribuidor), Oki, Yasushi (Contribuidor), Robertson, Maureen (Contribuidor), Ropp, Paul S. (Contribuidor), Saussy, Haun (Contribuidor), Waltner, Ann (Contribuidor), Widmer, Ellen (Contribuidor, Editor ), Zeitlin, Judith T. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Writing the Courtesan
  • 1 Ambiguous Images of Courtesan Culture in Late Imperial China
  • 2 The Late Ming Courtesan: Invention of a Cultural Ideal
  • 3 The Written Word and the Bound Foot: A History of the Courtesan's Aura
  • 4 Desire and Writing in the Late Ming Play Parrot Island
  • 5 Women in Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs
  • Part II: Norms and Selves
  • 6 Ming and Qing Anthologies of Women's Poetry and Their Selection Strategies
  • 7 Changing the Subject: Gender and Self-inscription in Authors' Prefaces and "Shi" Poetry
  • Part III: Poems in Context
  • 8 Writing Her Way Out of Trouble: Li Yuying in History and Fiction
  • 9 Embodying the Disembodied: Representations of Ghosts and the Feminine
  • 10 De/Constructing a Feminine Ideal in the Eighteenth Century: Random Records of West-Green and the Story of Shuangqing
  • Part IV: "Hong lou meng"
  • 11 Women's Writing Before and Within the Hong lou meng
  • 12 Beyond Stereotypes: The Twelve Beauties in Qing Court Art and the Dream of the Red Chamber
  • 13 Ming Loyalism and the Woman's Voice in Fiction After Hong lou meng
  • Postface: Chinese Women in a Comparative Perspective: A Response
  • Reference Matter
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Character List
  • Index

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