The beauty and the book : : women and fiction in nineteenth-century China / / Ellen Widmer.
"Chinese women entered the book trade in significant numbers in the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women from "good families" to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication of fiction began, and semip...
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| Superior document: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 268 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2006. Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ;
268. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
- The Women of Jinghua yuan
- Hou Zhi and "Women's Tanci"
- Fiction in Three Prominent Women's Lives
- Fiction as Women's Literature: The View Circa 1830
- Honglou meng ying in Biographical and Literary Perspectives
- Honglou meng Sequels and Their Female Readers
- Women, Publishing, and Late Qing Literary Currents
- Women and "The Rise of the Novel" in China
- Three Generations of Women
- Three Poems in Translation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Harvard East Asian Monographs.