Beyond Exemplar Tales
Women's Biography in Chinese History
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
446 pages
978-0-9845909-0-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women's biography. Drawing upon a vast array of sources-from formal biography to poetry, letters, and oral interviews-the authors examine how women's biography served particular cultural, political, and world-making projects, and how it illuminates these projects in new ways by highlighting tensions within and between them.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
18 b/w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 0 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9845909-0-2 (9780984590902)
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Persons
Joan Judge is a professor of history and humanities at York University. Hu Ying is a professor of East Asian languages and literatures at the University of California, Irvine.