Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/1995
This pathbreaking work argues that literate gentry women in seventeenth-century Jiangnan, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system. Momentous socioeconomic and intellectual changes in seventeenth-century Jiangnan provided the stimulus for the flowering of women's culture. The most salient of these changes included a flourishing of commercial publishing, the rise of a reading public, a new emphasis on emotions, the promotion of women's education, and, more generally, the emergence of new definitions of womanhood. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of seventeenth-century women, and in doing so provides a new way to conceptualize China's past, one offering a more realistic and complete understanding of the values of Chinese culture and the functioning of Chinese society.
- ISBN:
- 9780804723596
- 9780804723596
- Category:
- Social & cultural history
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-01-1995
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x24mm
- Weight:
- 0.55kg
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