Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

by Li Guo

Book Overview

Women's tanci, or "plucking rhymes," are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women's representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864), as well as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612496415
• ISBN13: 9781612496412
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"