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In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's de
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Authors: Xiaorong Li
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An invaluable resource to scholars of literary and intellectual movements in late imperial and modern China, sexuality, gender, literary decadence, modernism, c
Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China
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Authors: Xiaorong Li
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-03 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in trad
Different Worlds of Discourse
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During the late Qing reform era (1895-1912), women for the first time in Chinese history emerged in public space in collective groups. They assumed new social a
Precious Records
Language: en
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Authors: Susan Mann
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Most analyses of gender in High Qing times have focused on literature and on the writings of the elite; this book broadens the scope of inquiry to include women