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Reverie and Reality
Poetry on Travel by Late Imperial Chinese Women
104,99 € |
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Verlag: | Lexington Books |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 18.12.2013 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9780739179840 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 222 |
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Beschreibungen
<span><span>This is a study of Chinese gentry women’s poems on the theme of travel written during the late imperial period (ca.1600–1911), when Chinese women’s literature and culture flourished as never before. It challenges the clichéd image of completely secluded and immobile women anxiously waiting inside their prescribed feminine space, the so-called inner quarters, for the return of traveling husbands or other male kin. The travel poems discussed in this book, while not necessarily representative of all of the women writers of this period, point to the fact that many of them longed to explore the world through travel as did so many of their male counterparts. Sometimes they were able to actualize this desire for travel and sometimes they were forced to resort to imaginary “armchair travel.” In either case, women writers often used poetry as a means of recording their experiences or delineating their dreams of traveling outside the inner quarters, and indeed sometimes far away from the inner quarters. With its promise of adventure and fulfillment and, above all, a broadening of one’s intellectual and emotional horizons, travel was an important, and until now understudied, theme of late imperial women’s poetry. </span></span>
<span><span>Reverie and Reality </span><span>investigates late imperial Chinese gentry women’s poems on travel ranging from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.These poems written by groups of women after they “stepped out of the inner quarters” display their diverse journeys, profound experiences of social life, and earnest sentiments. Their travel and poems on travel can be considered milestones in the histories of women’s life and literature.</span></span>
<span><span>Acknowledgements</span></span>
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<span><span>Introduction</span></span>
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<span><span>Part I: Reverie</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter One: Recumbent Travel: Liberation and Limitation</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter Two: Roaming as a Female Transcendent </span></span>
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<span><span>Part II: Reality</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter Three: Women’s Footprints beyond the Inner Quarters</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter Four: A Manchu Woman’s Short Excursions</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter Five: Women’s International Travels in the Late Qing</span></span>
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<span><span>Epilogue</span></span>
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<span><span>Introduction</span></span>
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<span><span>Part I: Reverie</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter One: Recumbent Travel: Liberation and Limitation</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter Two: Roaming as a Female Transcendent </span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Part II: Reality</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter Three: Women’s Footprints beyond the Inner Quarters</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter Four: A Manchu Woman’s Short Excursions</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter Five: Women’s International Travels in the Late Qing</span></span>
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<span><span>Epilogue</span></span>
<span><span>Yanning Wang is assistant professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. </span></span>
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