Overt and Covert Treasures
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Overt and Covert Treasures

Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women

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Overt and Covert Treasures

Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

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