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Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China
Xiaorong Li
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Description for Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China
Paperback.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295992297
SKU
V9780295992297
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About Xiaorong Li
Xiaorong Li is associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reviews for Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China
"An important addition to the study of Ming-Qing women [that]…ground[s] the study of poetic images and syntax in the contexts of women’s experience as readers, writers, and historical agents."
Wai-yee Li
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
"Xiaorong Li’s book opens up this lost world for readers. . . . This book offers an insightful peep into the ... Read more
Wai-yee Li
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
"Xiaorong Li’s book opens up this lost world for readers. . . . This book offers an insightful peep into the ... Read more