Overt and covert treasures essays on the sources for Chinese women's history / edited by Clara Wing-chung Ho.

Other author Ho, Clara Wing-chung, 1963-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHong Kong : Chinese University Press,
Descriptionxii, 608 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from UPCC Books 2012 History Collection Supplement
Subjects
Women--China. --Historiography.
China--Historiography.

Portion of title Essays on the sources for Chinese women's history
Spine title Overt & covert treasures
Contents Acknowledgements and editor's notes / Clara Wing-chung Ho -- An investigation into the sources for women's history in the Sibu: in lieu of an introduction / Clara Wing-chung Ho -- How the history of women in early China intersects with the history of science in early China / Lisa Raphals -- The Mao commentary to the Book of odes as a source for women's history / Anne Behnke Kinney -- Discourses on female bodily aesthetics and its early revelations in The book of songs / Eva Kit Wah Man -- Social status, gender division and institutions: sources relating to women in Chinese standard histories / Yi Jo-lan -- Women in portraits: an overview of epitaphs from early and medieval China / Ping Yao -- Ishinpo and its excerpts from Chanjing: a Japanese medical text as a source for Chinese women's history / Jen-der Lee -- Illustrating Chinese women's history / Patricia Ebrey -- Gazetteers and the talented woman / Ellen Widmer -- Women in Chinese encyclopedias / Harriet T. Zurndorfer -- Gendered fictions and Chinese women's history / Louise Edwards -- Romantic recollections of women as sources of women's history / Wai-yee Li -- Auto/biographical subjects: Ming-Qing women's poetry collections as sources for women's life histories / Grace S. Fong -- Personal writings on female relatives in the Qing collective works / Weijing Lu -- Women's characters: calligraphy as a source for women's history / Hu Ying -- A kaleidoscope of knowledge about women: the Chinese periodical press, 1872-1918 / Joan Judge -- Between drawing and writing: prostitutes in the Dianshizhai pictorial / Hon-ming Yip -- The stories of urban Christian women in nineteenth-century South China: with special reference to missionary-related sources / Wong Man Kong -- Epilogue / Dorothy Ko, Angela Ki Che Leung, Jo-shui Chen & Robin D.S. Yates -- A selected bibliography of useful works on the methodologies of Chinese women's history / Kar-kee Lo & Hoi-ling Lui.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2013383236
ISBN9789629964290
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