The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China

by Ellen Widmer and 

Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women from "good families" to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication of fiction began, and semiprofessional novelists emerged. This study begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674021460
• ISBN13: 9780674021464
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"