04876nam 2200721 a 450 991078542350332120200520144314.01-282-95276-5978661295276090-04-19026-010.1163/ej.9789004185210.i-432(CKB)2670000000066584(EBL)635006(OCoLC)695982161(SSID)ssj0000438161(PQKBManifestationID)11280546(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438161(PQKBWorkID)10448747(PQKB)10029338(MiAaPQ)EBC635006(OCoLC)606404676(nllekb)BRILL9789004190269(Au-PeEL)EBL635006(CaPaEBR)ebr10439162(CaONFJC)MIL295276(PPN)170414264(EXLCZ)99267000000006658420100409d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe inner quarters and beyond[electronic resource] women writers from Ming through Qing /edited by Grace Fong and Ellen WidmerLeiden ;Boston Brill20101 online resource (445 p.)Women and gender in China studies,1877-5772 ;v. 4Description based upon print version of record.90-04-18521-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women’s experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and religion. Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize these materials. They question previous assumptions about women’s lives and abilities, open up new critical space in Chinese literary history and offer new perspectives on China’s culture and society. “This volume rewrites the history of Chinese women’s literature by taking a truly inter-disciplinary (instead of merely multi-disciplinary) approach. In so doing, it ends up illuminating the centrality of writing women to the social, political, and intellectual lives of the Chinese empire from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.” Prof. Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (California, 2005).Women and gender in China studies ;v. 4.Chinese literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen in literatureWomen and literatureChinaHistoryWomenChinaIntellectual lifeWomen authors, ChinesePolitical and social viewsChinese literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women in literature.Women and literatureHistory.WomenIntellectual life.Women authors, ChinesePolitical and social views.895.1/099287Fong Grace S.1948-1480259Widmer Ellen651175MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785423503321The inner quarters and beyond3734228UNINA