TY - BOOK AU - Widmer,Ellen TI - The beauty and the book: women and fiction in nineteenth-century China T2 - Harvard East Asian Monographs SN - 9781684174362 AV - PL2278 .W53 2006 U1 - 895.1/348099287 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard University Asia Center KW - Chinese fiction KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Women authors, Chinese N1 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684174362 ER -