LEADER 04909nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910459587403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-95276-5 010 $a9786612952760 010 $a90-04-19026-0 024 7 $a10.1163/ej.9789004185210.i-432 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066584 035 $a(EBL)635006 035 $a(OCoLC)695982161 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11280546 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448747 035 $a(PQKB)10029338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC635006 035 $a(OCoLC)606404676 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004190269 035 $a(PPN)170414264 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL635006 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10439162 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL295276 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066584 100 $a20100409d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe inner quarters and beyond$b[electronic resource] $ewomen writers from Ming through Qing /$fedited by Grace Fong and Ellen Widmer 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (445 p.) 225 1 $aWomen and gender in China studies,$x1877-5772 ;$vv. 4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-18521-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction / 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". 330 $aOnly recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women?s experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and religion. Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize these materials. They question previous assumptions about women?s lives and abilities, open up new critical space in Chinese literary history and offer new perspectives on China?s culture and society. ?This volume rewrites the history of Chinese women?s literature by taking a truly inter-disciplinary (instead of merely multi-disciplinary) approach. In so doing, it ends up illuminating the centrality of writing women to the social, political, and intellectual lives of the Chinese empire from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.? Prof. Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (California, 2005). 410 0$aWomen and gender in China studies ;$vv. 4. 606 $aChinese literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zChina$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zChina$xIntellectual life 606 $aWomen authors, Chinese$xPolitical and social views 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChinese literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aWomen authors, Chinese$xPolitical and social views. 676 $a895.1/099287 701 $aFong$b Grace S.$f1948-$0879294 701 $aWidmer$b Ellen$0651175 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459587403321 996 $aThe inner quarters and beyond$91963538 997 $aUNINA