Heroines of the Qing

Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories

Binbin Yang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2016
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99549-6 (ISBN)

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Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, "exemplary women" (lienu)—heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example—were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue by Confucian family standards. However, despite the rich writing traditions about these women, their lives were often distorted by moral and cultural agendas. Binbin Yang, drawing on interdisciplinary sources, shows how they were able to cross boundaries that were typically closed to women—boundaries not only of gender, but also of knowledge, economic power, political engagement, and ritual and cultural authority. Yang closely examines the rhetorical strategies these "exemplary women" exploited for self-representation in various writing genres and highlights their skillful negotiation with, and appropriation of, the values of female exemplarity for self-empowerment.

Binbin Yang is assistant professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong.

Acknowledgments

Note to Readers

Introduction

1. Breaking the Silence: Cases of Outspoken Exemplary Women

2. Visualizing Exemplarity: Women's Portraits and Paintings for Self-Representation

3. Staging Family Drama: Genealogical Writing as Ritual Authority

4. Enacting Guardians of Family Health: From Exemplary Wife to Reformer

Conclusion

Chinese Character Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2016
Reihe/Serie	Heroines of the Qing
Zusatzinfo	20 b&w illus., 2 charts, 2 tables
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-295-99549-1 / 0295995491
ISBN-13	978-0-295-99549-6 / 9780295995496
Zustand	Neuware