Heroines of the Qing : Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories /

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"This book draws from newly available sources of women's writings from late imperial China to present an alternative approach to the lives of 'exemplary women'--a category of women who were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yang, Binbin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016.
©2016
Subjects:
1644-1912
Virtue > Social aspects > China > History.
Femininity > Social aspects > China > History.
Women > China > Intellectual life.
Women authors, Chinese > History.
Women > China > History > 19th century.
Women > China > 18th century.
Confucianism > Social aspects > China > History.
Power (Social sciences) > China > History.
Sex role > China > History.
Vertus > Aspect social > Chine > Histoire.
Féminité > Aspect social > Chine > Histoire.
Femmes > Chine > Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes > Chine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Chine > 18e siècle.
Confucianisme > Aspect social > Chine > Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe > Chine > Histoire.
Confucianism > Social aspects
Power (Social sciences)
Qing Dynasty (China)
Sex role
Virtue > Social aspects
Women
Women authors, Chinese
Women > Intellectual life
China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Chine > Histoire > 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing)
China
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Heroines of the Qing; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments ; Note to Readers ; Introduction ; 1. Breaking the Silence: Cases of Outspoken Exemplary Women ; 2. Visualizing Exemplarity: Women's Portraits and Paintings for Self-Representation.
  • 3. Staging Family Drama: Genealogical Writing as Ritual Authority 4. Enacting Guardians of Family Health: From Exemplary Wife to Reformer ; Conclusion ; Chinese Character Glossary ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

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