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Women's poetry of late imperial China : transforming the inner chambers /

This work provides and analyzes examples of poetic themes, motifs, and imagery associated with the inner chambers by increasingly aware and sophisticated women writers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Xiaorong, 1969 May 25
Published: University of Washington Press,
Publisher Address: Seattle :
Publication Dates: [2012]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: A China program book
Subjects:
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
Summary: This work provides and analyzes examples of poetic themes, motifs, and imagery associated with the inner chambers by increasingly aware and sophisticated women writers.
Carrier Form: xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
ISBN: 9780295992297 :
0295992298
Index Number: PL2278
CLC: I207.209
Call Number: I207.209/L693
Contents: The green window: the boudoir in poetic convention -- A new feminine ideal: the case of the anthology of correct beginnings -- Convention and intervention: the lyrical world of Gu Zhenli -- Inside out: the boudoir in times of chaos -- The old boudoir and the "new woman": the late Qing and early republican.

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