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The mention of Chinese women writers in diaspora immediately brings to mind Jung Chang (b. 1952) and her Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991), which won the 1992 NCR book award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award, and got officially banned in China. Despite its popular reception and crucial acclaim, Chang's work has invited a lot of attacks. Among the most common is the contention that it merely focuses on the experience of the privileged and does not tell the reader what othe...

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Chinese literature --- Women authors, Chinese --- History and criticism. --- Chang family. --- S11/0710 --- S05/0214 --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--Qing: general and till about 1800 --- History and criticism --- Chinese women authors

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Onder de opeenvolgende dynastieën van het Chinese keizerrijk was literatuur in de eerste plaats een mannenzaak. De literatuur van vrouwen was in vele opzichten marginaal: schrijvende vrouwen namen vaak een uitzonderlijke positie in en hun proza en poëzie vormen slechts een fractie van wat door mannen werd geproduceerd. Toch ontwikkelde zich in de loop van de tijd een eigen hoogwaardige traditie van vrouwenliteratuur. Deze traditie bestaat vooral uit lyrische poëzie, maar omvat ook traktaten, herinneringen en lange vertellingen. Dit boek biedt een representatieve en gevarieerde keuze uit het werk van schrijvende vrouwen uit het keizerlijke China. Hun teksten worden gepresenteerd tegen de achtergrond van eigentijdse biografische en autobiografische bronnen die een onverbloemd inzicht geven in de levensomstandigheden van vrouwen in de traditionele Chinese maatschappij.

Chinese literature --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1-499 --- anno 1800-1999 --- S16/0195 --- S05/0200 --- S11/0720 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- China: Biographies and memoirs--General and collective --- China: Social sciences--Women's emancipation movement: general and before 1949 --- Women authors, Chinese --- Women authors. --- China --- Chinese women authors --- Women authors --- History --- Writers --- Women's literature --- Book

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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).

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In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War. The ""Hundred Day's Reform"" has received a great deal of attention from historians who have focused on the well-known male historical actors, but until now the Qing women reformers have received almost no consideration. In this book, historian Nanxiu Qian reveals the contributions of the active, optimistic, and self-sufficient women reformers of the late Qing Dynasty.Qian examines the late

Women authors, Chinese --- Women social reformers --- Women's rights --- Social reformers --- Chinese women authors --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Political and social views. --- History. --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Xue, Shaohui, --- Chen Xue, Shaohui, --- S11/0710 --- S11/0720 --- S16/0190 --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Women's emancipation movement: general and before 1949 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Literary criticism --- China --- History --- Politics and government