Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China

ISBN-13: 9780804723589 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 416 str.

Dorothy Ko

Opis

This volume reveals the existence of a previously unknown stratum of literate women among the urban gentry in 17th- and 18th-century China arguing these women, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system.