The inner quarters and beyond : women writers from Ming through Qing / / edited by Grace Fong and Ellen Widmer.
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| Superior document: | Women and gender in China studies, v. 4 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women and gender in China studies ;
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| Physical Description: | vii, 431 p. |
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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".