The inner quarters and beyond women writers from Ming through Qing /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Fong, Grace S., 1948-, Widmer, Ellen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Women and gender in China studies ; v. 4.
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Table of 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".