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Heroines of the Qing
Heroines of the Qingintroduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, \"exemplary women\" (lienu)-heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example-were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue by Confucian family standards. However, despite the rich writing traditions about these women, their lives were often distorted by moral and cultural agendas. Binbin Yang, drawing on interdisciplinary sources, shows how they were able to cross boundaries that were typically closed to women-boundaries not only of gender, but also of knowledge, economic power, political engagement, and ritual and cultural authority. Yang closely examines the rhetorical strategies these \"exemplary women\" exploited for self-representation in various writing genres and highlights their skillful negotiation with, and appropriation of, the values of female exemplarity for self-empowerment.
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Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 2)
The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.
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Biographical dictionary of Tang dynasty literati
\"Many regard the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) as the most important era for classical Chinese poetry, with around fifty thousand poems from the period surviving to the modern era. The great poets-Li Bo, Wang Wei, Du Fu, Bo-all lived in the Tang Dynasty. Meticulously researched and featuring many examples of their writings, the Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati presents 139 biographies of classical Chinese poets. Compiled by award-winner author William H. Nienhauser, Jr., and Michael E. Naparstek, this book is the first comprehensive dictionary of writers during the Tang dynasty. In addition to individual entries, it includes an overview of Tang literature, a literary timeline of the Tang, and an explanation of official titles and ranks, making it an indispensable resource for anyone interested in classical Chinese poetry\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Thus Speaks The Narrator
As a female author, Zhao Mei has the propensity to write from a specifically feminist perspective and all the essays collected in this book are, without any exception, concerned with women's issues. They encompass her commentaries on Prominent women figures in Chinese history such as Empress Wu Zetian, Princess Gao Yang and actresses like Eileen Chanf, Hu Die and Ruan Lingyu, who lived during the era of the Republic of China; and interpretations of the distinguished women writers in the West such as Viginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvir and Marguerite Duras. In addition, the author sets out to decipher the racial characteristics of her own ethnic group and its racial identity.
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The Inner Quarters and Beyond
Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) that have only recently been rediscovered.
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Culture, Identity, Commodity
Established and emerging scholars offer timely discussions of \"diasporic Chinese studies,\" drawing on transnational, postcolonial, globalisation, and racialisation theories. The collection examines what is at stake in the consideration of diasporic literatures and the connections and fissures emerging in these new critical terrains.
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