Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China - Brossura

Ko, Dorothy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0804723591 ISBN 13: 9780804723596

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Rejecting both popular image and accepted Western and Chinese scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from being oppressed or silenced. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology, practice, and self-perception.

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This pathbreaking work argues that literate gentry women in seventeenth-century Jiangnan, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system. Momentous socioeconomic and intellectual changes in seventeenth-century Jiangnan provided the stimulus for the flowering of women's culture. The most salient of these changes included a flourishing of commercial publishing, the rise of a reading public, a new emphasis on emotions, the promotion of women's education, and, more generally, the emergence of new definitions of womanhood. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of seventeenth-century women, and in doing so provides a new way to conceptualize China's past, one offering a more realistic and complete understanding of the values of Chinese culture and the functioning of Chinese society.

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“Ko challenges simplistic depictions of women as victims and argues that within their social and cultural constraints, a women’s literary culture developed that transcended public and private spheres and redefined womanhood. . . . This multifaceted book is a breakthrough in the study of women as part of Chinese cultural and social history.”—Choice

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• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0804723591
• ISBN 13: 9780804723596
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 395