TY - BOOK AU - Sun,Chengjuan TI - Women as Writing Subjects in High Qing China: Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety T2 - Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025 SN - 9789004706989 AV - HQ1767 U1 - 305.4/0951 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Women in public life KW - China KW - Women KW - History KW - 17th century KW - 18th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1From the Feat of Preservation to Moral Packaging -- 2The Xingling Ideal and the Innovative Reinscription of Female Experience -- 3Exploiting the Mid-Qing Conditions of Wifehood, Widowhood, a N2 - In what ways did Qing gentry women’s concern for gender and social propriety shape their assertions of female subjectivity and agency? How did they exploit the state promotion of female virtue and Confucian morality for self-fulfillment? With a UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004706989 ER -