Format:
1 online resource (653 pages)
ISBN:
9781684170760
Series Statement:
Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Women and National Traumain Late Imperial Chinese Literature -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Male Voices Appropriating Feminine Diction -- Passing for a Woman -- A Woman's Choices: Transparent and Hidden Analogies -- Feminine Diction and Political Readings -- Negotiating Political Choices -- Forging Literary Communities through a Poetics of Indirectness -- Revelations through Hiddenness -- 2. Female Voices Appropriating Masculine Diction -- Revisiting Feminine Diction -- The Terms of Historical Engagement -- Heroes: Failures and Fantasies -- When Is a Sword a Sword? -- The Rhetoric of Friendship -- Gender Discontent -- Women on Writing -- "Our Husband Is China" -- 3. Heroic Transformations -- Contexts of Literary History -- The Daughter's Patrimony in an Age of Disorder -- Female Hero as Indictment -- Female Hero as Apology -- Taming the Female Hero -- Inventing the Female Hero -- Female Heroes and National Salvation -- 4. The Fate of Pleasures and Passions -- Defending Pleasures and Passions -- Romantic Moralists -- Writing About Women, Writing Women -- Concubine as Martial Ghost: Wang Sun and Zhou Lianggong -- Courtesan as Poet-Historian: Bian Sai and Wu Weiye -- The Hidden Loyalist: Liu Rushi and Qian Qianyi -- Salvageable Passions -- 5. Victimhood and Agency -- The Discursive Space Defining the Abducted Woman -- Variables of Poetic Traces -- Private and Public Passions -- Political and Apolitical Chastity -- Compromised Chastity -- Crossing Boundaries -- 6. Judgment and Nostalgia -- The Women of Yangzhou -- The Logic of Blame -- The Logic of Praise -- Remembering and Forgetting -- Second-Generation Memory -- The Elusive Femme Fatale -- Judgment and Redemption -- Aftermath -- Works Cited -- Index -- Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674492042
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780674492042
Language:
English
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