TY - BOOK ID - 77935951 TI - The inner quarters and beyond AU - Fong, Grace S AU - Widmer, Ellen PY - 2010 SN - 1282952765 9786612952760 9004190260 9789004190269 9789004185210 9004185216 9781282952768 6612952768 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Chinese literature KW - Women in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - Women KW - Women authors, Chinese KW - Chinese women authors KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Literature KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Political and social views. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77935951 AB - 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). ER -