Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

by Wai-Yee Li

The Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by men writing in a feminine voice or assuming a female identity, as well as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674492048
• ISBN13: 9780674492042
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 650 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"