| Portion of title |
Essays on the sources for Chinese women's history |
| Spine title |
Overt & covert treasures |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements and editor's notes / Clara Wing-chung Ho -- An investigation into the sources for women's history in the Sibu: in lieu of an introduction / Clara Wing-chung Ho -- How the history of women in early China intersects with the history of science in early China / Lisa Raphals -- The Mao commentary to the Book of odes as a source for women's history / Anne Behnke Kinney -- Discourses on female bodily aesthetics and its early revelations in The book of songs / Eva Kit Wah Man -- Social status, gender division and institutions: sources relating to women in Chinese standard histories / Yi Jo-lan -- Women in portraits: an overview of epitaphs from early and medieval China / Ping Yao -- Ishinpo and its excerpts from Chanjing: a Japanese medical text as a source for Chinese women's history / Jen-der Lee -- Illustrating Chinese women's history / Patricia Ebrey -- Gazetteers and the talented woman / Ellen Widmer -- Women in Chinese encyclopedias / Harriet T. Zurndorfer -- Gendered fictions and Chinese women's history / Louise Edwards -- Romantic recollections of women as sources of women's history / Wai-yee Li -- Auto/biographical subjects: Ming-Qing women's poetry collections as sources for women's life histories / Grace S. Fong -- Personal writings on female relatives in the Qing collective works / Weijing Lu -- Women's characters: calligraphy as a source for women's history / Hu Ying -- A kaleidoscope of knowledge about women: the Chinese periodical press, 1872-1918 / Joan Judge -- Between drawing and writing: prostitutes in the Dianshizhai pictorial / Hon-ming Yip -- The stories of urban Christian women in nineteenth-century South China: with special reference to missionary-related sources / Wong Man Kong -- Epilogue / Dorothy Ko, Angela Ki Che Leung, Jo-shui Chen & Robin D.S. Yates -- A selected bibliography of useful works on the methodologies of Chinese women's history / Kar-kee Lo & Hoi-ling Lui. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013383236 |
| ISBN | 9789629964290 |
| ISBN | 9629964295 |
