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Politics, poetics, and gender in late Qing China : Xue Shaohui and the era of reform /

In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War. The ""Hundred Day's Reform"" has received a great deal of attent...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Qian, Nanxiu (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Making the future reformers (1866-97). Xue Shaohui and the Min writing-women culture
  • The Chen brothers and the Fuzhou Navy Yard culture
  • A marriage between the two cultures
  • Revitalizing the Xianyuan tradition in the late Qing reform era (1897-1911). The 1897-98 Shanghai campaign for women's education
  • Translating the female West to expand Chinese women's space
  • Introducing modern science and technology through literature
  • Xue's self-repositioning in the family
  • Xue's literary response to the late Qing reforms.