Writing Women in Late Imperial China by Ellen Widmer, Kang-i ... - 9780804728720

Writing Women in Late Imperial ChinaAuthor(s): Ellen Widmer, Kang-i Sun Chang\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804728720, 978-0804728720\nSynopsis\nUntil recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called attention to several hundred whose works have survived. Coming from the fields of literature, history, art history, and comparative literature, the fourteen contributors to this volume apply a range of methodologies to this new material and to other sources concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900.\n\n An opening section on courtesans details the lives of individual women and their male admirerscontemporary and subsequentwho imposed an array of meaning on the category of woman writer. The works treated in this section are mainly poetry, although drama also enters in. The second section focuses on the writings of g.