Herself an Author Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China
Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China

"Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers' participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong's recovery of many of these poets, her able exegesis and elegant, analytical grasp of what the poets were doing is a great read, and her bilingual presentatio...

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Main Author: Fong, Grace S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2008]
Subjects:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General
Chinese literature > Women authors > History and criticism
Chinese literature > Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 > History and criticism
Chinese literature > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > History and criticism
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Summary:"Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers' participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong's recovery of many of these poets, her able exegesis and elegant, analytical grasp of what the poets were doing is a great read, and her bilingual presentation of their poetry gives the book additional power. This is a persuasive and elegant study." -Tani Barlow, author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism"In this quietly authoritative book, Grace Fong has brought a group of women poets back to life. Previously ignored by scholars because of their marginal status or the inaccessibility of their works, these remarkable writers now speak to us about the sensualities, pains, satisfactions, and sadness of being a woman in a patriarchal society.
Professor Fong-a superb translator of Chinese poetry, prose, and criticism-has rendered the works of these women in a way that is true both to our theoretical concerns and theirs." -Dorothy Ko, author of Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding"Professor Fong approaches the poetry of Ming-Qing upper-class women as a social-cultural activity that allowed these women to manifest their agency and assert their own subjectivity against the background of virtual and actual networks of fellow female poets. As the distillation of more than ten years of research by one of the leading scholars in this field, this work is a timely contribution that eminently deserves our attention.
Given the inclusion of translations of some of the texts discussed, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the reading of women's poetry of the Ming-Qing period." -Wilt Idema, Harvard UniversityHerself an Author 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. The volume treats different genres of writing and includes translations of texts that are made available for the first time in English. Among the works considered are the life-long poetic record of Gan Lirou, the lyrical travel journal kept by Wang Fengxian, and the erotic poetry of the concubine Shen Cai.
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages) 2 b&w images, 3 maps
ISBN:9780824862824
DOI:10.1515/9780824862824

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