The Beauty and the Book
Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19509738 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chloë Starr (1Oxford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 392-394 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | NAN Nü (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1387-6805 • E-ISSN: 1568-5268 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/138768007x244424 |
| OpenAlex | W2029712168 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
392 Reviews / Nan Nü 9 (2007) 371-400 Ellen Widmer. e Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xv + 407pp. US$ 35.00. ISBN 0-674-02146-0. Ellen Widmer’s study begins with a question that runs throughout: why did educated Chinese women not write novels? e volume probes this ‘long-standing inhibition’ against women’s participation in fiction, its structure reflecting two phases of non-interest: firstly tracing women as potential readers and critics, and then looking at women as possible authors. Individual chapters build up to the conclusions previewed in Widmer’s introduction: that
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Beauty · China · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |