Herself an Author : : Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China / / Grace S. Fong.

"Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers' participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong's recovery of many of these poets, her able exegesis and elegant, analytical grasp of what the poets were doing is a great read, and her bilingual presentatio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 b&w images, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Life in Poetry
  • Chapter 2. From the Margin to the Center The Literary Vocation of Concubines
  • Chapter 3. Authoring Journeys Women on the Road
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. Gan Lirou's "Narrating My Thoughts on My Sixtieth Birthday"
  • Appendix 2. Xing Cijing's Summary of the Journey from Qian
  • Appendix 3. Wang Fengxian's The Homeward Journey East
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author