Female Self Fashioning in Late Imperial China : How the Genltewoman and the Courtesan Edited Her Story and Rewrote Hi/story
Series
China studies
ISBN
9789047411468
Type
book section
Date Issued
2007
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Abstract
In this study Daria Berg explores the ways in which women fashioned representations of the female self by editing and publishing their own and other women's writings. The publishing boom in late Ming/early Qing China propelled literary women into prominence, both as producers and consumers of literature. Berg analyses the literary and cultural aspirations, social anxieties and financial motivations of two women editors from the opposite ends of the social spectrum-a gentlewoman and a courtesan-in the economically prosperous and flourishing cultural environment of seventeenth-century Jiangnan, the Yangzi delta region. As women set out to edit women's writings, they discovered that the process of rewriting China's literary history empowered them in new and different ways. In the role of editor, women perceived their work as a means to change the course of history and their own representations within it.
Language
English
Keywords
chinese studies
chinese literature
classical chinese literature
gender
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
No
Book title
Reading China : Fiction, Histroy and the Dynamics of Discourse. Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge
Publisher
E.J. Brill
Publisher place
Leiden
Number
v. 10
Start page
238
End page
289
Pages
52
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Division(s)
Eprints ID
207448
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