The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model and provides a different account of the era, history as seen through the eyes of women. Basing her remarkable study on the poetry and memoirs of three generations of literary women of the Zhang family--Tang Yaoqing, her eldest daughter, and her eldest granddaughter--Susan Mann illuminates a China that has been...
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"There is absolutely nothing remotely like this book in the history of late imperial women. [An] immensely important book."—Gail Hershatter, author of Women in China's Long Twentieth Century "A masterful work."—Lynn Hunt, coeditor of Beyond the Cultural Turn
List of Illustrations Genealogical Chart of the Zhang Family and Their Collateral Kin Prologue1 Jining, Shandong (1893-1895)2 Tang Yaoqing, Guixiu (1763-1831)3 Zhang Qieying, Poet (1792-after 1863)4 Wang Caipin, Governess (1826-1893)Epilogue. The Historian Says . . .Zhang Family Chronology Glossary of Names Glossary of Terms Appendix. Selected Poems and Song Lyrics Notes References Acknowledgments Index
\ From the Publisher"Wonderful . . . . An erudite and important contribution to the social history of nineteenth-century China. Yet it reads almost like a novel."--Times Literary Supplement (Tls)\ "[An] elegantly written and produced volume. . . . the first serious effort to move beyond poetic output to detail the lives and background from which this output emerged."--Women's Review of Books\ "The hybrid form of The Talented Women of the Zhang Family is new and highly successful. . . . Excellent."--Harvard Journal of Asiatic Stds\ \ \
