The burden of female talent : the poet Li Qingzhao and her history in China / Ronald Egan.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Egan, Ronald, 1948-

Series:

• Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 90.
• Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ; 90

Language:

• Chinese
• English

Subjects (All):

• Li, Qingzhao, 1081-approximately 1141--Criticism and interpretation.
• Li, Qingzhao, 1081-approximately 1141.
• Women and literature--China--History--To 1500.
• Women and literature.
• History.
• Criticism and interpretation.
• China.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

422 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2013]

Summary:

"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 ability"--Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780674726697
• 0674726693

OCLC:

838196323