The inner quarters and beyond
Subtitle: women writers from Ming through Qing
By: edited by Grace Fong and Ellen Widmer
Series: Women and gender in China studies -- v. 4
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9789004185210
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Grace S. Fong; title: Writing and illness: a feminine condition in women's poetry of the Ming and Qing / Grace S. Fong; title: Lamenting the dead: women's performance of grief in late imperial China  / Anne E. McLaren; title: Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer; title: The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton; title: From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua; title: Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li; title: Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant; title: War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu; title: The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann; title: Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li; title: Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian; title: Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".