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The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
The Beauty and the Book Women and Fiction in NineteenthCentury China - Harvard East Asian Monographs
Author: Ellen Widmer
Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women from "good families" to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication of fiction began, and semiprofessional novelists emerged. This study begins with...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674021464
ISBN-10: 0674021460
Publication Date: 4/30/2006
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Book Type: Hardcover
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