The Burden of Female Talent : : The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China / / Ronald Egan.

"By re-examining the Chinese woman poet Li Qingzhao, Egan discusses the traditional manipulation of her image to mold her talent to make it compatible with ideals of womanly conduct and identity, and reveals the difficulty literary culture had in coping with her extraordinary conduct and abilit...

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Superior document:Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 90
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2014.
Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 90.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 422 pages )
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Table of Contents:
  • Women as writers in the Song Dynasty
  • Writing and the struggle for acceptance
  • Song lyrics preliminaries
  • Widowhood, remarriage, divorce
  • Writings from the aftermath
  • The "afterword"
  • The beginnings of "Li Qingzhao": reception during the Southern Song and Yuan
  • Saving the widow, denying the remarriage: reception during the Ming and Qing
  • Modernism, revisionism, feminism: reception in modern times
  • Song lyrics, part 1
  • Song lyrics, part 2.