TY - BOOK AU - Fong,Grace S. AU - Widmer,Ellen ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The inner quarters and beyond: women writers from Ming through Qing T2 - Women and gender in China studies, AV - PL2278 .I66 2010eb U1 - 895.1/099287 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Chinese literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Women in literature KW - Women and literature KW - China KW - History KW - Women KW - Intellectual life KW - Women authors, Chinese KW - Political and social views KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10439162 ER -