num_pages: 290
description: Women's dress, women's writing, women's bodies, women's work, women as portrayed by themselves and others in literature and the these are among the topics addressed in this wide-ranging collection of essays written by scholars working in a number of different areas of Chinese studies. Until recently, academic studies of Chinese women inhabited the more exotic reaches of sinology. The present volume is a contribution to a body of scholarship which over the past ten years has succeeded in transforming the field.
language: English
title: Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture: Chung-Kuo Yin Wen Hua, I Cho Nu Hsing Yu Wen Tzu
titlecomplete: Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture: Chung-Kuo Yin Wen Hua, I Cho Nu Hsing Yu Wen Tzu
publisher: Monash Asia Inst