Format:
XIV, 431 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
ISBN:
9780984590902
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0984590900
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0520098811
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9780520098817
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9780520289734
Series Statement:
New perspectives on Chinese culture and society 1
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-411) and index
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Introduction / Joan Judge and Hu Ying -- pt. I. Methodological and philosophical reflections : probing silences, questioning interiority -- Biographical sources and silences / Susan Mann -- Getting a life : the production of 1950s women labor models in rural Shaanxi / Gail Hershatter -- pt. II. Biography as cultural project -- The Lienü zhuan tradition and Wang Zhaoyuan's (1763-1851) production of the Lienü zhuan buzhu (1812) / Harriet T. Zurndorfer -- Lienü versus Xianyuan : the two biographical traditions in Chinese women's history / Nanxiu Qian -- Faithful maiden biographies : a forum for ritual debate, moral critique, and personal reflection / Weijing Lu -- Exemplary time and secular times : Wei Xiyuan's Illustrated biographies of exceptional women and the late Qing moment / Joan Judge -- Gender and modern martyrology : Qiu Jin as Lienü, Lieshi, or Nülieshi / Hu Ying --
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pt. III. Alternative "biographical" sources -- Epitaphs and fiction -- Women's epitaphs in Tang China (618-907) / Ping Yao -- Fantasies of fidelity : loyal courtesans to faithful wives / Beverly Bossler -- Lovers, talkers, monsters, and good women : competing images in mid-Ming epitaphs and fiction / Katherine Carlitz -- Private materials -- Empress Xiang (1046-1101) and biographical sources beyond formal biographies / Patricia Ebrey -- Life and letters : reflections on Tanyangzi / Ann Waltner -- In her own voice? -- The biographical and the autobiographical in Bo Shaojun's One hundred poems lamenting my husband / Wilt L. Idema -- Women as biographers in mid-Qing Jiangnan / Ellen Widmer -- Beyond rewriting life history : three female interviewees' personal experiences of war / Yu Chien-ming -- Epilogue : how to read Chinese women's biography / Joan Judge and Hu Ying -- Appendix A. Traditional Chinese genres of biographical material -- Appendix B. The Lienü tradition in dynastic histories -- Appendix C. The Xianyuan tradition in the Shishuo ti works
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
China
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Frau
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Biografie
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Konferenzschrift
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