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The beauty and the book : women and fiction in nineteenth-century China /

Widmer, Ellen.

The beauty and the book : women and fiction in nineteenth-century China / Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China Ellen Widmer. - 1 online resource. - Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 268 Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077 . - Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 268. Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-385) and index.

Preliminary Material -- From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- The Women of Jinghua yuan -- Hou Zhi and "Women's Tanci" -- Fiction in Three Prominent Women's Lives -- Fiction as Women's Literature: The View Circa 1830 -- Honglou meng ying in Biographical and Literary Perspectives -- Honglou meng Sequels and Their Female Readers -- Women, Publishing, and Late Qing Literary Currents -- Women and "The Rise of the Novel" in China -- Three Generations of Women -- Three Poems in Translation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

9781684174362 9780674021464

10.1163/9781684174362 DOI

2005031534


Chinese fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Chinese fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Women authors, Chinese--19th century.

PL2278 / .W53 2006

895.1/348099287