Disruptive Voices
Three Cases of Outspoken âExemplary Womenâ from Nineteenth-Century China
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While historical records in China abound in accounts of âexemplary women,â little is known of what was lying beneath the unflinching moral stance with which these women tackled all the vicissitudes of life to bring glories to their families and lineages. This study is an attempt to approach the lives of these women from the angle of their own life-writingsâin particular, their bieji (personal collections). The three cases examined in this study expose a stunning âoutspokennessâ of the women. It was this degree of their outspokenness, I argue, that often called into question the Confucian patriarchal values that were integral to their very existence as moral exemplars.
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Disruptive Voices
Three Cases of Outspoken âExemplary Womenâ from Nineteenth-Century China
In: NAN NÃSearch for other papers by Binbin Yang in
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While historical records in China abound in accounts of âexemplary women,â little is known of what was lying beneath the unflinching moral stance with which these women tackled all the vicissitudes of life to bring glories to their families and lineages. This study is an attempt to approach the lives of these women from the angle of their own life-writingsâin particular, their bieji (personal collections). The three cases examined in this study expose a stunning âoutspokennessâ of the women. It was this degree of their outspokenness, I argue, that often called into question the Confucian patriarchal values that were integral to their very existence as moral exemplars.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 327 | 65 | 13 |
| Full Text Views | 149 | 5 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 285 | 10 | 0 |
