The Red Brush
Subtitle: Writing Women of Imperial China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: October 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 960
ISBN-13: 9780674013933
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chinese literature; Chinese; Literary Criticism; China; Women authors; Asian - Chinese; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Asian - General; History and criticism; Women authors, Chinese
Description: "From Ban Zhao (ca. 60-ca. 115 C.E.) to Qiu Jin (1875-1907), spanning the two millennia of imperial China (221 B.C.E.-1911), the authors of The Red Brush trace the lives and works of writing women: empresses and palace ladies, daughters of the elite, courtesans, nuns, peasant wives, and cross-dressing revolutionaries. Wilt Idema and Beata Grant have compiled in this volume an ambitious and illuminating collection of poetry, prose, drama, and fiction, as well as memorials, letters, religious writings, and other documents by women writers of imperial China, all in new translations. Many of these writings are of substantial literary quality, and all of them offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the women writers of this period."--BOOK JACKET.