The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China by Ellen Widmer

The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China

Harvard East Asian Monographs (Hardcover)

Ellen Widmer

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nonfiction classics history literary reflective medium-paced
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Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women from "good families" to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in t...

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