The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

曼素恩，加州大学戴维斯校区历史学系教授，1999—2000年担任美国亚洲研究学会（Association of Asian Studies）会长。著有Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950(1987)以及Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century(1997)，后者荣获列文森奖。合编著作有Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History(2001)。

出版者:University of California Press

作者:Susan Mann

页数:342

出版时间:2007-9-28

价格:USD 63.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780520250895

图书标签:女性文学

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 largely invisible. Drawing on a stunning array of primary materials - published poetry, gazetteer articles, memorabilia - as well as a variety of other historical documents, Mann reconstructs these women's intimate relationships, personal aspirations, values, ideas, and political consciousness. She transforms our understanding of gender relations and what it meant to be an educated woman during China's transition from empire to nation and offers a new view of the history of late imperial women.

读后感

九十年代以来，中国妇女史领域经典之作叠出，先后有伊沛霞《内闱》（1993）、高彦颐《闺塾师》（1995），和曼素恩《缀珍录:十八世纪及其前后的中国妇女历史》（1997）分别从宋代、明末清初和盛清时期全方位解读前现代中国的女性生活。其中《缀珍录》还于1999年获得了中国史研究...  

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