Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China

by Beata Grant

The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Scholars have noted the profound effect on, and literary responses to, the fall of the Ming on the male literati elite. Also of great interest is the remarkable emergence beginning in the late Ming of educated women as readers and, more importantly, writers. Only recently beginning to be explored,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824832027
• ISBN13: 9780824832025
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.9"