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1 online resource |
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Discovery and encounter -- 2. Text and practice -- 3. Tang Baozhen: I sing and therefore I am and become -- 4. He Yanxin: calling and recalling the sentiments of nüshu -- 5. Hu Xinkui: child bride, party cadre, housewife -- 6. Hu Meiyue: at the crossroads between tradition and modernity -- 7. Conclusions: subjectivity, expression and prospects |
| Summary |
This is the first ethnography to explore the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing 'women's script', known as nüshu, script circulated exclusively in Jiangyong County of Hunan Province in south China. Based on twenty years of fieldwork conducted since 1992, this book uses nüshu in conjunction with its affiliated singing tradition nüge (women's song), complemented by a life narrative approach, to unfold peasant women's lifeworlds that constitute a summation of shifting realities that engage women's voice (sentiments and perspectives), expression/performance, and practice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Language and sex -- China
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Chinese language -- Sex differences
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Chinese language -- Terms and phrases.
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Chinese language -- Foreign elements
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gender.
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Figures of speech.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
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Chinese language
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Chinese language -- Foreign elements
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Figures of speech
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gender
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Language and sex
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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dictionaries.
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Dictionaries
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionnaires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190210410 |
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0190210419 |
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9780190210427 |
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0190210427 |
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