Women Writers of Traditional China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Writers of Traditional China write by Kang-i Sun Chang. This book was released on 1999. Women Writers of Traditional China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.
Women Writers of Traditional China
Women Writers of Traditional China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Writers of Traditional China write by Kang-i Sun Chang. This book was released on 1999. Women Writers of Traditional China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.
Women Poets of China
Women Poets of China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Poets of China write by Kenneth Rexroth. This book was released on 1982. Women Poets of China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The poetry proves again that stereotypes mislead. Chinese verse is supposedly cool and distant, detached and dispassionate. The opposite seems true; poets are exalted or downcast, drunk with wine or, in the case of women, frankly sensuous....Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills." --America
Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China
Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China write by Xiaorong Li. This book was released on 2013-05-03. Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in traditional Chinese households, and which in literature were both a real and an imaginary place. Originally popularized in sixth-century "palace style" poetry, the inner chambers were used by male writers as a setting in which to celebrate female beauty, to lament the loneliness of abandoned women, and by extension, to serve as a political allegory for the exile of loyal and upright male ministers spurned by the imperial court. Female writers of lyric poetry (ci) soon adopted the theme, beginning its transition from male fantasy to multidimensional representation of women and their place in society, and eventually its manifestation in other poetic genres as well. Emerging from the role of sexual objects within poetry, late imperial women were agents of literary change in their expansion and complication of the boudoir theme. While some take ownership and de-eroticizing its imagery for their own purposes, adding voices of children and older women, and filling the inner chambers with purposeful activity such as conversation, teaching, religious ritual, music, sewing, childcare, and chess-playing, some simply want to escape from their confinement and protest gender restrictions imposed on women. Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China traces this evolution across centuries, providing and analyzing examples of poetic themes, motifs, and imagery associated with the inner chambers, and demonstrating the complication and nuancing of the gui theme by increasingly aware and sophisticated women writers.
The Red Brush
The Red Brush - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Red Brush write by Wilt L. Idema. This book was released on 2020-03-23. The Red Brush available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One of the most exciting recent developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of an extremely rich and diverse tradition of women’s writing of the imperial period (221 B.C.E.–1911 C.E.). Many of these writings are of considerable literary quality. Others provide us with moving insights into the lives and feelings of a surprisingly diverse group of women living in Confucian China, a society that perhaps more than any other is known for its patriarchal tradition.Because of the burgeoning interest in the study of both premodern and modern women in China, several scholarly books, articles, and even anthologies of women’s poetry have been published in the last two decades. This anthology differs from previous works by offering a glimpse of women’s writings not only in poetry but in other genres as well, including essays and letters, drama, religious writing, and narrative fiction.The authors have presented the selections within their respective biographical and historical contexts. This comprehensive approach helps to clarify traditional Chinese ideas on the nature and function of literature as well as on the role of the woman writer."
