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This anthology of Chinese women's poetry in translation brings
together representative selections from the work of some 130 poets
from the Han dynasty to the early twentieth century. To measure the
development of Chinese women's poetry, one must take into account
not only the poems but also the prose writings--prefaces,
biographies, theoretical tracts--that framed them and attempted to
shape women's writing as a distinct category of literature. To this
end, the anthology contains an extended section of criticism by and
about women writers.
Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have
existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called
attention to several hundred whose works have survived. Coming from
the fields of literature, history, art history, and comparative
literature, the fourteen contributors to this volume apply a range
of methodologies to this new material and to other sources
concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900.
Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have
existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called
attention to several hundred whose works have survived. Coming from
the fields of literature, history, art history, and comparative
literature, the fourteen contributors to this volume apply a range
of methodologies to this new material and to other sources
concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900.
China has one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and fiction, but also historical writing and other prose forms. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, the History frequently challenges current scholarship, from taking recent archeological discoveries into consideration to understanding Chinese modernity not as a sudden rupture with the past but as part of a longer process. The History offers both an integrated narrative, situating literature in its larger cultural context, and an overview of the key developments of the past millennia accessible to non-specialist readers as well as scholars and students of Chinese.
The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals, not only because of the many decades of destructive warfare but also because of the adjustments necessary to life under a foreign regime. History became a defining subject in their writings, and it went on shaping literary production in succeeding generations as the Ming continued to be remembered, re-imagined, and refigured on new terms. The twelve chapters in this volume and the introductory essays on early Qing poetry, prose, and drama understand the writings of this era wholly or in part as attempts to recover from or transcend the trauma of the transition years. By the end of the seventeenth century, the sense of trauma had diminished, and a mood of accommodation had taken hold. Varying shades of lament or reconciliation, critical or nostalgic retrospection on the Ming, and rejection or acceptance of the new order distinguish the many voices in these writings.
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