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Burying Autumn - Poetry, Friendship, and Loss (Hardcover)
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Burying Autumn - Poetry, Friendship, and Loss (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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"Autumn wind, autumn rain, fill my heart with sorrow"-these were
the last words of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), written before she was
beheaded for plotting to overthrow the Qing empire. Eventually, she
would be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first
feminist, her last words committed to memory by schoolchildren. Yet
during her lifetime she was often seen as eccentric, even deviant;
in her death, and still more in the forced abandonment of her
remains, the authorities had wanted her to disappear into
historical oblivion. Burying Autumn tells the story of the enduring
friendship between Qiu Jin and her sworn-sisters Wu Zhiying and Xu
Zihua, who braved political persecution to give her a proper
burial. Formed amidst social upheaval, their bond found its most
poignant expression in Wu and Xu's mourning for Qiu. The archives
of this friendship-letters, poems, biographical sketches, steles,
and hand-copied sutra-vividly display how these women understood
the concrete experiences of modernity, how they articulated those
experiences through traditional art forms, and how their artworks
transformed the cultural traditions they invoked even while
maintaining deep cultural roots. In enabling Qiu Jin to acquire
historical significance, their friendship fulfilled its ultimate
socially transformative potential.
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