The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

by Susan Mann and Susan L. Mann

Book Overview

The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model and provides a different account of the era, history as seen through the eyes of women. Basing her remarkable study on the poetry and memoirs of three generations of literary women of the Zhang family--Tang Yaoqing, her eldest daughter, and her eldest granddaughter--Susan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520250907
• ISBN13: 9780520250901
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"