05039oam 22009854a 450 991079821130332120230126214411.00-295-80645-1(CKB)3710000000654198(EBL)4649014(SSID)ssj0001648683(PQKBManifestationID)16415042(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001648683(PQKBWorkID)14851750(PQKB)11556110(MiAaPQ)EBC4649014(Au-PeEL)EBL4649014(CaPaEBR)ebr11249908(CaONFJC)MIL913240(OCoLC)957436619(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81639(EXLCZ)99371000000065419820160917d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHeroines of the QingExemplary Women Tell Their Stories /Binbin YangSeattle :University of Washington Press,2016.©2016.1 online resource (245 p.)Modern Language Initiative BooksDescription based upon print version of record.0-295-99549-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.3. Staging Family Drama: Genealogical Writing as Ritual Authority 4. Enacting Guardians of Family Health: From Exemplary Wife to Reformer ; Conclusion ; Chinese Character Glossary ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.Cover; Heroines of the Qing; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments ; Note to Readers ; Introduction ; 1. Breaking the Silence: Cases of Outspoken Exemplary Women ; 2. Visualizing Exemplarity: Women's Portraits and Paintings for Self-Representation."This book draws from newly available sources of women's writings from late imperial China to present an alternative approach to the lives of 'exemplary women'--a category of women who were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue as defined by core Confucian family values. Despite the rich writing traditions about these women, their lives often remain clouded by larger moral and cultural agendas or distorted by the male authors who presented them according to their own emotional or commemorative needs. This book introduces an array of women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful and active subjects of their own lives, and closely examines the rhetorical strategies they exploited for self-representation. This study highlights these female authors' skillful negotiation with--and appropriation of--the constrictive values of female exemplarity for self-empowerment. It draws on interdisciplinary sources to show how these authors crossed the boundaries of domains that were traditionally assumed to be closed to them--boundaries not only of gender but also of knowledge, economic power, and political engagement, as well as ritual and cultural authority"--Provided by publisherModern Language Initiative BooksWomenIntellectual lifefast(OCoLC)fst01176814Women authors, Chinesefast(OCoLC)fst01177241Womenfast(OCoLC)fst01176568VirtueSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01167717Sex rolefast(OCoLC)fst01114598Qing Dynasty (China)fast(OCoLC)fst01696773Power (Social sciences)fast(OCoLC)fst01074219ConfucianismSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00875076Sex roleChinaHistoryPower (Social sciences)ChinaHistoryConfucianismSocial aspectsChinaHistoryWomenChina18th centuryWomenChinaHistory19th centuryWomen authors, ChineseHistoryWomenChinaIntellectual lifeFemininitySocial aspectsChinaHistoryVirtueSocial aspectsChinaHistoryChinafastChinaHistoryQing dynasty, 1644-1912History.WomenIntellectual life.Women authors, Chinese.Women.VirtueSocial aspects.Sex role.Qing Dynasty (China)Power (Social sciences)ConfucianismSocial aspects.Sex roleHistory.Power (Social sciences)History.ConfucianismSocial aspectsHistory.WomenWomenHistoryWomen authors, ChineseHistory.WomenIntellectual life.FemininitySocial aspectsHistory.VirtueSocial aspectsHistory.305.4095Yang Binbin1472850MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910798211303321Heroines of the Qing3685801UNINA