Overt and Covert Treasures Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History / edited by Clara Wing-chung Ho.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ho, Clara Wing-chung, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--China--Historiography.

Women.

China--Historiography.

China.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 608 p. :) ill. ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This is the first published volume on a variety of sources for Chinese women's history. It is an attempt to explore overt and covert information on Chinese women in a vast quantity of textual and non-textual, conventional and unconventional, source materials. Some chapters re-read well-known texts or previously marginalized texts, and brainstorm new ways to use and interpret these sources; others explore new sources or previously overlooked or under-used materials. This book is a valuable product witnessing the concerted effort of twenty some scholars located in different parts of the world.

Contents:

Acknowledgements and editor's notes / Clara Wing-chung Ho

An investigation into the sources for women's history in the Sibu: in lieu of an introduction / Clara Wing-chung Ho

How the history of women in early China intersects with the history of science in early China / Lisa Raphals

The Mao commentary to the Book of odes as a source for women's history / Anne Behnke Kinney

Discourses on female bodily aesthetics and its early revelations in The book of songs / Eva Kit Wah Man

Social status, gender division and institutions: sources relating to women in Chinese standard histories / Yi Jo-lan

Women in portraits: an overview of epitaphs from early and medieval China / Ping Yao

Ishinpo and its excerpts from Chanjing: a Japanese medical text as a source for Chinese women's history / Jen-der Lee

Illustrating Chinese women's history / Patricia Ebrey

Gazetteers and the talented woman / Ellen Widmer

Women in Chinese encyclopedias / Harriet T. Zurndorfer

Gendered fictions and Chinese women's history / Louise Edwards

Romantic recollections of women as sources of women's history / Wai-yee Li

Auto/biographical subjects: Ming-Qing women's poetry collections as sources for women's life histories / Grace S. Fong

Personal writings on female relatives in the Qing collective works / Weijing Lu

Women's characters: calligraphy as a source for women's history / Hu Ying

A kaleidoscope of knowledge about women: the Chinese periodical press, 1872-1918 / Joan Judge

Between drawing and writing: prostitutes in the Dianshizhai pictorial / Hon-ming Yip

The stories of urban Christian women in nineteenth-century South China: with special reference to missionary-related sources / Wong Man Kong

Epilogue / Dorothy Ko, Angela Ki Che Leung, Jo-shui Chen & Robin D.S. Yates

A selected bibliography of useful works on the methodologies of Chinese women's history / Kar-kee Lo & Hoi-ling Lui.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789629969066

9629969068

OCLC:

868220006