Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss

by Hu Ying

"Autumn wind, autumn rain, fill my heart with sorrow"--these were the last words of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), written before she was beheaded for plotting to overthrow the Qing empire. Eventually, she would be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first feminist, her last words committed to memory by schoolchildren. Yet during her lifetime she was often seen as eccentric, even deviant; in her death, and still more in the forced abandonment of her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737202
• ISBN13: 9780674737204
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"