Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories by Binbin Yang
By Binbin Yang
Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of chinese language girls from the eighteenth and 19th centuries who have been robust, lively topics in their personal lives and who wrote themselves because the heroines in their exemplary tales. generally, �exemplary girls� (lienu)�heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and devoted maidens, for example�were written into reputable dynastic histories for his or her unrelenting adherence to lady advantage via Confucian kin criteria. in spite of the fact that, regardless of the wealthy writing traditions approximately those ladies, their lives have been frequently distorted through ethical and cultural agendas. Binbin Yang, drawing on interdisciplinary assets, exhibits how they have been capable of go barriers that have been often closed to women�boundaries not just of gender, but additionally of information, financial energy, political engagement, and formality and cultural authority. Yang heavily examines the rhetorical techniques those �exemplary ladies� exploited for self-representation in a variety of writing genres and highlights their skillful negotiation with, and appropriation of, the values of woman exemplarity for self-empowerment.
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