Heroines of Jiangyong
Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women's Script
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19509889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fei‐wen Liu (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, corresponding author), Fei-Wen Liu (1Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 172-174 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1163/156852610x518309 |
| OpenAlex | W1988499779 |
| Language | EN |
172 Reviews / Nan Nü 12 (2010) 142-174 Wilt L. Idema. Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Script . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. viii +181 pp. US$60.00 cloth, ISBN 978-0-295-98841-2; US$25.00 paper, ISBN 978-0-295-98842. Wilt Idema’s Heroines of Jiangyong is the fi rst English translation of a set of nüshu ⤛㚠 (female literature) verse narratives. e term nüshu refers to a gender-specifi c writing system circulated exclusively among women in Jiangyong 㰇㯠 county in southern Hunan. is unique female script was used by women in rural Jiangyong for correspondence and life-narrative compositions beginning sometime
Art · Ballad · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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