gender, agency, and writing in late imperial China
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fong, Grace S.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, romans, poëzie, historisch, China
- Description
- This book addresses the critical question of how to approach the study of women's writing. It explores various methods of engaging in a meaningful way with a rich corpus of poetry and prose written by women of the late Ming and Qing periods, much of it rediscovered by the author in rare book collections in China and the United States. Fong argues that literate women in late imperial China used writing and reading to create literary and social communities, transcend temporal-spatial and social limitations, and represent themselves as the authors of their own life histories.