Overt and Covert Treasures

Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women

Clara Wing-chung Ho

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• eBook ISBN:
  9789629964290
• Year: 2012

This is the first published volume on a variety of sources for Chinese women's history. It is an attempt to explore overt and covert information on Chinese women in a vast quantity of textual and non-textual, conventional and unconventional, source materials. Some chapters re-read well-known texts or previously marginalized texts, and brainstorm new ways to use and interpret these sources; others explore new sources or previously overlooked or under-used materials. This book is a valuable product witnessing the concerted effort of twenty some scholars located in different parts of the world.

Table of contents

• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements and Editor’s Notes
• 1. An Investigation into the Sources for Women’s Historyin the Sibu
• 2. History of Women—History of Science
• 3. The Mao Commentary to the Book of Odes as a Source for Women’s History
• 4. Female Aesthetics in The Book of Songs
• 5. Social Status, Gender Division and Institutions
• 6. Women in Portraits: An Overview of Epitaphs from Early and Medieval China
• 7. Ishinpo and its Excerpts from Chanjing
• 8. Illustrating Chinese Women’s History
• 9. Gazetteers and the Talented Woman
• 10. Women in Chinese Encyclopedias
• 11. Gendered Fictions and Chinese Women’s History
• 12. Romantic Recollections of Women as Sources of Women’s History
• 13. Auto/biographical Subjects: Ming-Qing Women’sPoetry Collections as Sources for Women’s LifeHistories
• 14. Personal Writings on Female Relatives in the QingCollected Works
• 15. Women’s Characters: Calligraphy as a Source for Women’s History
• 16. A Kaleidoscope of Knowledge about Women
• 15. Between Drawing and Writing
• 16. The Stories of Urban Christian Women in Nineteenth-century South China
• Epilogue
• A Selected Bibliography of Useful Works on theMethodologies of Chinese Women’s History
• About the Contributors
• Sources of Images
• Index of Names