1st Edition
Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700
The Rise of Literary Women: An Introduction 1. Writing Goddess: Virgin, Venerators, Literary Vogues 2. The Child Prodigy 3. Queen of the Bordellos? The Courtesan’s Quest 4. Miss Emotion: The Drama of the New Woman Reader on the Literary Marketplace 5. Editing Her Story, Rewriting History: The Art of Female Self-Fashioning 6. Negotiating Gentility: The Banana Garden Poetry Club Epilogue
Biography
Daria Berg is Chair Professor (Ordinaria) of Chinese Culture and Society and Director of the Asia Research Centre at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She has published extensively on Chinese literature, popular culture and cultural history, including Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi yinyuan zhuan. She edited Reading China: Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse. Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge, and co-edited The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender And Class.
Awarded the Specialist Publication Accolade/ICAS Book Prize 2015 by ICAS (the International Convention of Asian Studies).
"Berg’s project should be respected as a pioneering effort to integrate diverse strands of recent research on Chinese women. It is conscientiously documented, and it reads well."
Ellen Widner - Wellesley College, NAN NÜ
