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John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he f…
"Calls attention to the central role played by the body in capturing memories of the lived experiences of traditional Chinese writers during the tumultuous Manchu conquest of China"--.
This volume deals with the social legislation of Zhu Yuanzhang, who founded the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), following the era of Mongol rule in China. It recounts the circumstances under which the laws were enacted and what the Emperor claimed he was trying to accomplish - a resto…
Introduction -- "Weaving looms in hundreds of rooms": women-authored criticism in late imperial China -- The female recluse: the trope of withdrawal and self-representation in poems by two late Ming/Early Qing women writers -- Playful seriousness: women's "teasingly composed" po…
