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Women as Writing Subjects in High Qing China: Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety

by Chengjuan Sun
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004695153
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 232
  • Original Price: GBP 86.4
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 495 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthologies (multiple authors)

In what ways did Qing gentry women's concern for gender and social propriety shape their assertions of female subjectivity and agency? How did they exploit the state promotion of female virtue and Confucian morality for self-fulfillment?
With a focus on three of the most widely acclaimed mid-Qing women authors, this book uses both synchronic and diachronic approaches to analyze writings on conjugal love, widowhood, women's education, maternal teaching, boudoir objects, and history, illustrating their vibrant, gendered revision of literati poetic convention, thus proposing an alternative analytical framework that goes beyond the rigid dichotomy of compliance versus resistance.

Sun, Chengjuan: - Chengjuan Sun, Ph.D. (2008), Harvard University, is Professor of Chinese at Kenyon College. She has published articles and translations on Chinese literature and Asian women's writings and gender studies, including "From Amused Indulgence to Serious Instruction: Two Poetic Subgenres on Girlhood" (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews, 2014) and "The Hidden Blessing of Being a Last Ruler: Anecdotes and the Song Dynasty Interpretation of Li Yu (937-978) lyrics" (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews, 2012).

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