The inner quarters and beyond : women writers from Ming through Qing / / edited by Grace Fong and Ellen Widmer.

• Superior document: Women and gender in China studies, v. 4
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Fong, Grace S., 1948-; Widmer, Ellen.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Women and gender in China studies ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: vii, 431 p.

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".