Teachers of the Inner Chambers

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ISBN: 9780804723596 | 0804723591
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/1994

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Rejecting both popular image and accepted Western and Chinese scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from being oppressed or silenced. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology, practice, and self-perception.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Explanatory Note	p. xiii
Selected Reign Periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1522-1795	p. xv
Introduction Gender and the Politics of Chinese History	p. 1
Social and Private Histories	p. 27
In the Floating World	p. 29
The Enchantment of Love in 'The Peony Pavilion'	p. 68
Womanhood	p. 113
Margins of Domesticity Enlarging the Woman's Sphere	p. 115
Talent, Virtue, and Beauty	p. 143
Women's Culture	p. 177
Domestic Communities Male and Female Domains	p. 179
Social and Public Communities Genealogies across Time and Space	p. 219
Transitory Communities	p. 251
Epilogue	p. 295
Reference Matter	p. 297
Notes	p. 299
Works Cited	p. 351
Character List	p. 379
Index	p. 391
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