05233oam 2200721I 450 991045279810332120200520144314.01-138-64350-50-203-11422-11-136-29021-41-136-29022-210.4324/9780203114223 (CKB)2550000001106066(EBL)1323292(OCoLC)854977043(SSID)ssj0000957099(PQKBManifestationID)12486855(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000957099(PQKBWorkID)10965108(PQKB)10223273(MiAaPQ)EBC1323292(Au-PeEL)EBL1323292(CaPaEBR)ebr10737907(CaONFJC)MIL506425(OCoLC)854583716(EXLCZ)99255000000110606620180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen and the literary world in early modern China, 1580-1700 /Daria BergLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (304 p.)Routledge studies in the early history of Asia ;8Routledge studies in the early history of Asia ;8Description based upon print version of record.0-415-53341-4 1-299-75174-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover ; Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map of the Yangzi delta (Jiangnan) region in the late imperial period (Qing dynasty, 1644-1911); The rise of literary women: an introduction; Concepts; Gentility and literary culture; The hidden sage; The historian as a messenger of souls; The publishing industry; Aims and outline; Notes; 1 Writing goddess: virgin, venerators, literary vogues; A new reading of Tanyangzi's story; The voicesLiterati reactions to female literacyConclusion; Notes; 2 The child prodigy; The precocious girl; Styling the catkins poetess; What happens when the catkins poetess grows up?; Books, libraries and the child prodigy-turned-goddess; Duplicating goddesses; Reconstructing her voice; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Queen of the bordellos? The courtesan's quest; An invitation; Qinhuai revisited; Biographical reconstruction; Reconstructing Xue Susu's lost book; Recovering the courtesan's poetic voice; Through the literati's eyes; In the gentlewoman's gaze; The artistic gaze; Conclusion; Notes4 Miss Emotion: the drama of the new woman reader on the literary marketplacePortrait of a woman reader; The biographer's gaze; The editor's gaze; The female gaze in the literary oeuvre; Gossip, rumours or lies? The question of authenticity; Sweet words of seduction: the cult of emotions and the cult of clever women; The reader; Trading emotions: books and business; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Editing her story, rewriting hi/story: the art of female self-fashioning; The concept of self-fashioning; Editorship and the publishing industry; The gentlewoman editor; The professional woman editorGentlewomen critics and team editorsCourtesan editors; The courtesan collator-cum-copy editor; Male views of editorship; Perceptions of women editors: a view from fiction; Conclusion: editorial negotiations; Notes; 6 Negotiating gentility: the Banana Garden Poetry Club; A literary society for gentlewomen; The circle of poets; The Banana Garden; Simple, solitary and serene: the image of the gentlewoman scholar; The Banana Garden girls in the male gaze; Through female eyes; Women and publishing; The legacy of the Banana Garden club; Whose story is it anyway?; Conclusion; Notes; EpilogueList of works citedSources cited by abbreviation; Other primary sources; Secondary sources; Index<P>Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women's personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early QRoutledge Studies in the Early History of AsiaWomen and literatureChinaChinese literature960-1644History and criticismChinaSocial life and customs960-1644Electronic books.Women and literatureChinese literatureHistory and criticism.895.1/099287Berg Daria1964-,925048MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452798103321Women and the literary world in early modern China, 1580-17002076207UNINA