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The beauty and the book : women and fiction in nineteenth-century China / Ellen Widmer.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Widmer, Ellen, author.
Series:
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 268.
Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.
Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 268
Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Chinese fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Chinese fiction.
Chinese fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Women authors, Chinese--19th century.
Women authors, Chinese.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Other Title:
Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China
Place of Publication:
Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2006.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-385) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China,
ISBN:
9781684174362
9780674021464
OCLC:
607445444
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9781684174362 DOI
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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