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

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

海外中国研究丛书

Dorothy Ko

416 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced

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Rejecting both popular image and accepted Western and Chinese scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from being oppressed or silenced....

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