Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China 9780824862824

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Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China
9780824862824

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Grace S. Fong

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Life in Poetry
Chapter 2. From the Margin to the Center The Literary Vocation of Concubines
Chapter 3. Authoring Journeys Women on the Road
Epilogue
Appendix 1. Gan Lirou’s “Narrating My Thoughts on My Sixtieth Birthday”
Appendix 2. Xing Cijing’s Summary of the Journey from Qian
Appendix 3. Wang Fengxian’s The Homeward Journey East
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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