ISBN |
9780520289734 (softcover) |
Title |
Beyond exemplar tales : women's biography in Chinese history / edited by Joan Judge and Hu Ying |
Publisher |
Berkeley, CA ; London : Global, Area, and International Archive, University of California Press, 2011 |
Physical desc. |
xiv, 431 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Series |
New perspectives on Chinese culture and society 1 |
Note |
Partly based '... on an international conference on Chinese women's biography held in March of 2006, .... in Laguna Beach, California' -- acknowledgements. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and (pages 379-411) index. |
Contents |
Introduction / Joan Judge and Hu Ying -- Part 1: Methodological and philosophical reflections: probing silences, questioning interiority. Biographical sources and silences / Susan Mann -- Getting a life: the production of 1950s women labor models in rural Shaanxi / Gail Hershatter -- Part 2: Biography as cultural project. The Lienü zhuan tradition and Wang Zhaoyuan's (1763-1851) production of the Lienü zhuan buzhu (1812) / Harriet T. Zurndorfer -- Lienü versus Xianyuan: the two biographical traditions in Chinese women's history / Nanxiu Qian -- Faithful maiden biographies: a forum for ritual debate, moral critique, and personal reflection / Weijing Lu -- Exemplary time and secular times: Wei Xiyuan's Illustrated biographies of exceptional women and the late Qing moment / Joan Judge -- Gender and modern martyrology: Qiu Jin as Lienü, Lieshi, or Nülieshi / Hu Ying -- Part 3: Alternative 'biographical' sources. Epitaphs and fiction. Women's epitaphs in Tang China (618-907) / Ping Yao -- Fantasies of fidelity: loyal courtesans to faithful wives / Beverly Bossler -- Lovers, talkers, monsters, and good women: competing images in mid-Ming epitaphs and fiction / Katherine Carlitz -- Private materials. Empress Xiang (1046-1101) and biographical sources beyond formal biographies / Patricia Ebrey -- Life and letters: reflections on Tanyangzi / Ann Waltner -- In her own voice? The biographical and the autobiographical in Bo Shaojun's One hundred poems lamenting my husband / Wilt L. Idema -- Women as biographers in mid-Qing Jiangnan / Ellen Widmer -- Beyond rewriting life history: three female interviewees' personal experiences of war / Yu Chien-ming -- Epilogue: how to read Chinese women's biography / Joan Judge and Hu Ying -- Appendix A: Traditional Chinese genres of biographical material -- Appendix B: The Lienü tradition in dynastic histories -- Appendix C: The Xianyuan tradition in the Shishuo ti works. |
Subject |
Women -- China -- Biography |
Women -- China -- History |
Biography as a literary form |
China -- History |
Added name(s) |
Judge, Joan 1958 editor |
Hu, Ying 1962- editor |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
University of California, Berkeley Global, Area, and International Archive |