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This pathbreaking work argues that literate gentry women in seventeenth-century Jiangnan, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system. Momentous socioeconomic and intellectual changes in seventeenth-century Jiangnan provided the stimulus for the flowering of women's culture. The most salient of these changes included a flourishing of commercial publishing, the rise of a reading public, a new emphasis on emotions, the promotion of women's education, and, more generally, the emergence of new definitions of womanhood. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of seventeenth-century women, and in doing so provides a new way to conceptualize China's past, one offering a more realistic and complete understanding of the values of Chinese culture and the functioning of Chinese society.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Teachers of the Inner Chambers
• Author: Dorothy Ko
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780804723596
• ISBN: 0804723591
• ID: 05140600
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 622 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 152 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 1994

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