The sword or the needle
Subtitle: the female knight-errant (xia) in traditional Chinese narrative
By: Roland Altenburger.
Series: Welten Ostasiens -- Bd. 15 = -- Worlds of East Asia -- Bd. 15
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9783034300360
Subjects: Chinese literature -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Knights and knighthood in literature
Description: Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative.
Notes: Includes index.