Burden of Female Talent The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China

Name: Burden of Female Talent The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China
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ISBN: 9780674726697

ISBN-10: 0674726693

ISBN-13: 9780674726697

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ronald C. Egan

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Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China's literary and cultural history. She stands out as the great exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were male. But at what price to our understanding of her as a writer does this distinction come? The Burden of Female Talent challenges conventional modes of thinking about Li Qingzhao as a devoted but often lonely wife and, later, a forlorn widow. By examining manipulations of her image by the critical tradition in later imperial times and into the twentieth century, Ronald C. Egan brings to light the ways in which critics sought to accommodate her to…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Publication date: 2/17/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Ronald C. Egan is Professor of Sinology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University.