| Description |
1 online resource (434 p.) |
| Series |
Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser |
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Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Abbreviations and Editions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Women as Writers in the Song Dynasty -- Courtesans as Poets -- Literati Women as Poets -- Poets of Repute -- Chapter 2: Writing and the Struggle for Acceptance -- Li Qingzhao on Reading and Writing -- The Early Critics on Li Qingzhao -- Li Qingzhao's Shi Poetry and the Masculine Mode -- "On Song Lyrics" -- Chapter 3: Song Lyrics Preliminaries -- The Authenticity Question -- The Autobiographical Reading Problem |
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Why Are Women Poets Read That Way? -- Why Did Zhao Mingcheng Not Send Letters Home to Li Qingzhao? -- Chapter 4: Widowhood, Remarriage, Divorce -- Fleeing the Jurchen and the Death of Zhao Mingcheng -- Remarriage and Divorce -- Larger Issues -- Chapter 5: Writings from the Aftermath -- Poems Addressed to Emissaries -- Writings on Capture the Horse -- Chapter 6: The "Afterword" -- Looking beyond the Text -- Other Aims and Considerations -- Chapter 7: The Beginnings of "Li Qingzhao": Reception during the Southern Song and Yuan -- The Misery of Her Later Years -- Devotion to Zhao Mingcheng |
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Stories in the Unofficial Biography -- The Epitome of the Lonely Woman -- In Early Anthologies -- Chapter 8: Saving the Widow, Denying the Remarriage: Reception during the Ming and Qing -- The Ming-Qing Rise of Women's Writing -- The Iconic Woman Poet -- Wang Shizhen's Matching Song Lyrics -- The Multitalented Woman, "Genuine" Words -- The Remarriage of Widows, Yuan through Qing -- Moral Condemnation of Li Qingzhao -- Disbelief and Exasperation -- Denying the Remarriage -- The Reconstituted Li Qingzhao in the Late Qing -- Chapter 9: Modernism, Revisionism, Feminism: Reception in Modern Times |
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May Fourth Period Histories of Chinese Literature -- The Remarriage Controversy, 1957-2010 -- The Concubine or Other Woman Question -- Chapter 10: Song Lyrics, Part 1 -- Rewriting Earlier Lines -- The Outdoors -- A Peculiar Mood -- Women in Song Lyrics by Male Writers -- Chapter 11 Song Lyrics, Part 2 -- Songs of Flirtatiousness -- Other Late Attributions -- Contours of Affection and Preconceptions -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Song Lyric Piece Numbers and Finding List -- Appendix 2 Recent Interpretations of Particular Poems on the Concubine Issue -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series |
| Subject |
Li, Qingzhao, 1081-approximately 1141 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Li, Qingzhao, 1081-approximately 1141 fast |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781684170746 |
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1684170745 |
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