Daria Berg

Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Discussing the work of key women writers, this book considers the perceptions of women in China in the early modern period. It examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, outlines the experiences of particular women, and explores women's changing roles. It also provides rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting, engaging literary works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136290220
• Artikelnr.: 39191631

Autorenporträt

Daria Berg is Chair Professor (Ordinaria) of Chinese Culture and Society and Director of the Asia Research Centre at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She has published extensively on Chinese literature, popular culture and cultural history, including Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi yinyuan zhuan. She edited Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse. Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge, and co-edited The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender And Class.

Inhaltsangabe

The Rise of Literary Women: An Introduction 1. Writing Goddess: Virgin,
Venerators, Literary Vogues 2. The Child Prodigy 3. Queen of the Bordellos?
The Courtesan's Quest 4. Miss Emotion: The Drama of the New Woman Reader on
the Literary Marketplace 5. Editing Her Story, Rewriting History: The Art
of Female Self-Fashioning 6. Negotiating Gentility: The Banana Garden
Poetry Club Epilogue

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The Rise of Literary Women: An Introduction 1. Writing Goddess: Virgin, Venerators, Literary Vogues 2. The Child Prodigy 3. Queen of the Bordellos? The Courtesan's Quest 4. Miss Emotion: The Drama of the New Woman Reader on the Literary Marketplace 5. Editing Her Story, Rewriting History: The Art of Female Self-Fashioning 6. Negotiating Gentility: The Banana Garden Poetry Club Epilogue

Rezensionen

Awarded the Specialist Publication Accolade/ICAS Book Prize 2015 by ICAS (the International Convention of Asian Studies).