02880nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10439162 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100409s2010 ne sb 001 0 eng d 2010013798 9789004185210 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004190269 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)695982161 a-cc--- PL2278 .I66 2010eb 895.1/099287 22 The inner quarters and beyond [electronic resource] : women writers from Ming through Qing / edited by Grace Fong and Ellen Widmer. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. vii, 431 p. Women and gender in China studies, 1877-5772 ; v. 4 Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Grace S. Fong -- Writing and illness: a feminine condition in women's poetry of the Ming and Qing / Grace S. Fong -- Lamenting the dead: women's performance of grief in late imperial China / Anne E. McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature". Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Chinese literature Women authors History and criticism. Women in literature. Women and literature China History. Women China Intellectual life. Women authors, Chinese Political and social views. Electronic books. local Fong, Grace S., 1948- Widmer, Ellen. ebrary, Inc. Women and gender in China studies ; v. 4. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10439162 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 134332 134332