Ellen Widmer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3832047 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ellen Widmer |
| PRENOMES | Ellen |
| SOBRENOME | Widmer |
| ASSINATURA | WIDMER E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1559-1950 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Women Writers of Huizhou
A Source from Afar
How could lines from an American biography of educator Mary Lyon (1797-1849) have influenced the wording of the Chinese novel Huang Xiuqiu (1905-07)? Sarah K. Bolton’s (1841-1916) Lives of Girls Who Became Famous of 1886 entered Japan and was translated or adapted into several sets of biographies in Japan, among them one by Tokutomi Roka (1868-1927) in 1898, and another by Nemoto Shô (1851-1933) in 1906. From there they traveled to China on separ…
Beyond the Inner Chambers
Mao Qiling 毛奇齡 (1623–1713) was a celebrated poet, scholar, and official whose life bridged the transition from Ming to Qing. A lesser-known aspect of his life was his interest in and work with women writers, especially the group associated with Shang Jinglan 商景蘭 (1605–1680). In the mid-1670s, Xu Zhaohua 徐昭華 (17th–18th cent.), the daughter of Shang's younger sister Shang Jinghui 商景徽 (17th cent.), became Mao's disciple, one of the most famous. This…
Arranged Companions
Promotion, Patronage, and Poetic Socialization
Promotion, Patronage, and Poetic Socialization:The Tongqiu Society and its Role in Wang Duanshu's Shaoxing Years* Ellen Widmer Wang Duanshu (1621–after 1701) was one of the best-known women writers of her day.1 Her fame then and now reflects her skill as a poet and her extensive editorial endeavors. She left Beijing for her hometown of Shaoxing when the Ming fell and moved from there to Hangzhou in the mid-1660s. During her twenty or so years in …
Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature
Snakes' Legs
Snakes' Legs examines sequels (xushu), a common but long-neglected literary phenomenon in traditional China. What prompted writers to produce sequels despite their poor reputation as a genre? What motivated readers to read them? How should we characterize the nature of the relationship between sequels and rewritings? Contributors to this volume illuminate these and other questions, and the collection as a whole offers a comprehensive consideratio…
Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China 1580–1700, written by Daria Berg, 2013
Remembering Christina Kelley Gilmartin, 1946-2012
Ming Qing Anhui funü wenxue zhushu jikao
The Inner Quarters and Beyond
Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women's experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and reli…
From May Fourth to June Fourth
What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to fre…
Poetry as Power
Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature
Extreme Makeover
The paper attempts to make sense of two radically changed characters in two early sequels to Honglou meng. One is the managerial Daiyu of Hou Honglou meng, the other is the military Baochai of Honglou fumeng. The analysis begins with a comparison to oral literature, especially the genre known as zidishu. It concludes that the likeliest influences lie elsewhere, perhaps in such vernacular novels as Shuihu zhuan and the rhymed prosimetric text Zais…
Foreign Travel through a Woman' Eyes
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Inflecting Gender
This essay introduces Zhan Kai/Siqi Zhai, a little known writer of the late Qing. It focuses on his two "new novels" (Zhongguo xin nühao and Nüzi quan, both of 1907) which it presents in the context of his sketches of courtesans, a genre with which he was more at home. The two genres configure gender in different ways. Whether it be the intended reader, central characters, or narrator, the gender composition shifts when Zhan moves to his new styl…
Writing and Materiality in China
Writing and Materiality in China
Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. To speak of the thing-ness of writing is to understand i…
Honglou meng ying and its Publisher, Juzhen tang of Beijing
Published in 1877, the novel Honglou meng ying by the celebrated poet and painter Gu Chun (zi Taiqing,1799-1877), may be the first extant novel ever authored by a Chinese woman. Gu Taiqing's fascinating biography is not the subject of this paper. Suffice it to say that she was a Manchu of the trimmed blue banner and the Xilin (or Xilinjueluo) clan and that she spent her adult years in Beijing. 1
The appropriation of cultural capital
For much of the 20th century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Examinations of literary and cultural modernity in China have, however, led to a questioning of this view. By approaching May Fourth from novel perspectives, the authors of the eight studies in this volume seek to contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centred on the intellectual and cultural/histori…
Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China
Introduction Part I. The Image of the Literati in Qing Discourse: 1. Literati identity and the Qing epistemological crisis 2. Discourses of the literati and the literati in discourse 3. The intellectual milieus of three novelists Part II. The Deconstruction of Literati Identity in Rulin Waishi: 4. Scholars, poets, painters and essayists 5. The decline of literati mores 6. The use and abuse of ritual Part III. Fictional Reconstruction of Literati …
Writing Women in Late Imperial China
Writing Women in Late Imperial China
Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called attention to several hundred whose works have survived. Coming from the fields of literature, history, art history, and comparative literature, the fourteen contributors to this volume apply a range of methodologies to this new material and to other sources concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900. An opening…
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists
Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexua…
Foreign Travel through a Woman' Eyes
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The Huanduzhai of Hangzhou and Suzhou
The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China
The Margins of Utopia
The Margins of Utopia
The Rhetoric of Chin P'ing Mei
The Odyssey of Shen Congwen
The Margins of Utopia
The Story of the Stone, Volume 5
The Epistolary World of Female Talent in Seventeenth-Century China
Vol. 10, No. 2 Late Imperial ChinaDecember 1989 THE EPISTOLARY WORLD OF FEMALE TALENT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CHINA Ellen Widmer1 When we attempt to reconstruct the social context within which women wrote poetry or painted in late imperial China, it is convenient to reach for the eighteenth-century novel, Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber, or Story of the Stone), which describes a family poetry society, the so-called Crab-Flower Club (Haitang…
Xiaoqing's Literary Legacy and the Place of the Woman Writer in Late Imperial China
XIAOQING'S LITERARY LEGACY AND THE PLACE OF THE WOMAN WRITER IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA* Ellen Widmer To iconoclastic, "enlightenment" thinkers of the early twentieth century, it was natural to view the old family system as inveterately opposed to female self-expression and to hail the women writers of the May Fourth era as unprecedented pioneers. While there is considerable justice in both of these formulations, recent research on traditional Chines…
The Story of Stone
In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition—all concerning stones endowed with magical properties—Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature. Bringing together Chinese myth, rel…
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists
Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexua…
The Huanduzhai of Hangzhou and Suzhou
Writing Women in Late Imperial China
Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called attention to several hundred whose works have survived. Coming from the fields of literature, history, art history, and comparative literature, the fourteen contributors to this volume apply a range of methodologies to this new material and to other sources concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900. An opening…
Writing Women in Late Imperial China
Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China
Introduction Part I. The Image of the Literati in Qing Discourse: 1. Literati identity and the Qing epistemological crisis 2. Discourses of the literati and the literati in discourse 3. The intellectual milieus of three novelists Part II. The Deconstruction of Literati Identity in Rulin Waishi: 4. Scholars, poets, painters and essayists 5. The decline of literati mores 6. The use and abuse of ritual Part III. Fictional Reconstruction of Literati …
The appropriation of cultural capital
For much of the 20th century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Examinations of literary and cultural modernity in China have, however, led to a questioning of this view. By approaching May Fourth from novel perspectives, the authors of the eight studies in this volume seek to contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centred on the intellectual and cultural/histori…
Honglou meng ying and its Publisher, Juzhen tang of Beijing
Published in 1877, the novel Honglou meng ying by the celebrated poet and painter Gu Chun (zi Taiqing,1799-1877), may be the first extant novel ever authored by a Chinese woman. Gu Taiqing's fascinating biography is not the subject of this paper. Suffice it to say that she was a Manchu of the trimmed blue banner and the Xilin (or Xilinjueluo) clan and that she spent her adult years in Beijing. 1
Writing and Materiality in China
Writing and Materiality in China
Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. To speak of the thing-ness of writing is to understand i…
Inflecting Gender
This essay introduces Zhan Kai/Siqi Zhai, a little known writer of the late Qing. It focuses on his two "new novels" (Zhongguo xin nühao and Nüzi quan, both of 1907) which it presents in the context of his sketches of courtesans, a genre with which he was more at home. The two genres configure gender in different ways. Whether it be the intended reader, central characters, or narrator, the gender composition shifts when Zhan moves to his new styl…
Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature
Extreme Makeover
The paper attempts to make sense of two radically changed characters in two early sequels to Honglou meng. One is the managerial Daiyu of Hou Honglou meng, the other is the military Baochai of Honglou fumeng. The analysis begins with a comparison to oral literature, especially the genre known as zidishu. It concludes that the likeliest influences lie elsewhere, perhaps in such vernacular novels as Shuihu zhuan and the rhymed prosimetric text Zais…
Foreign Travel through a Woman' Eyes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From May Fourth to June Fourth
What do the Chinese literature and film inspired by the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) have in common with the Chinese literature and film of the May Fourth movement (1918-1930)? This new book demonstrates that these two periods of the highest literary and cinematic creativity in twentieth-century China share several aims: to liberate these narrative arts from previous aesthetic orthodoxies, to draw on foreign sources for inspiration, and to fre…
Poetry as Power
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