Beyond Exemplar Tales: Volume 1

Author/Contributor(s):	Judge, Joan
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	10/05/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women's biography. Drawing upon a vast array of sources--from formal biography to poetry, letters, and oral interviews--the authors examine how women's biography served particular cultural, political, and world-making projects, and how it illuminates these projects in new ways by highlighting tensions within and between them.