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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fong, Grace S., 1948-

Widmer, Ellen

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Women and gender in China studies ; v. 4.

Women and gender in China studies, 1877-5772 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Chinese literature--Women authors.

Women in literature.

Women and literature--China--History.

Women and literature.

Women--China--Intellectual life.

Women.

Women authors, Chinese--Political and social views.

Women authors, Chinese.

Political and social views.

Intellectual life.

History.

China.

Physical Description:

xiv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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

Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature" / Maureen Robertson

The inner quarters and beyond: women writers from Ming through Qing and its deliberations on a "minor literature" / Ellen Widmer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9789004185210

9004185216

OCLC:

606404676

Publisher Number:

99939786395