Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China

by Grace S. Fong

Book Overview

"Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers' participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong's recovery of many of these poets, her able exegesis and elegant, analytical grasp of what the poets were doing is a great read, and her bilingual presentation of their poetry gives the book additional power. This is a persuasive and elegant study." --Tani Barlow, author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831861
• ISBN13: 9780824831868
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"