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Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss
Ying Hu
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Hardback. Beheaded for plotting against the Qing empire, poet Qiu Jin would later be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first feminist. Hu Ying studies Qiu's enduring bond with Wu Zhiying and Xu Zihua, who braved political persecution to keep her legacy alive. In doing so, their friendship fulfilled its ultimate socially transformative potential. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 365 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Autumn wind, autumn rain, fill my heart with sorrow --these were the last words of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), written before she was beheaded for plotting to overthrow the Qing empire. Eventually, she would be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first feminist, her last words committed to memory by schoolchildren. Yet during her lifetime she was often seen as eccentric, even deviant; in her death, and still more in the forced abandonment of her remains, the authorities had wanted her to disappear into historical oblivion. Burying Autumn tells the story of the enduring friendship between Qiu ... Read more
Autumn wind, autumn rain, fill my heart with sorrow --these were the last words of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), written before she was beheaded for plotting to overthrow the Qing empire. Eventually, she would be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first feminist, her last words committed to memory by schoolchildren. Yet during her lifetime she was often seen as eccentric, even deviant; in her death, and still more in the forced abandonment of her remains, the authorities had wanted her to disappear into historical oblivion. Burying Autumn tells the story of the enduring friendship between Qiu ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
635g
Number of Pages
365
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674737204
SKU
V9780674737204
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About Ying Hu
Hu Ying is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
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