{"product_id":"the-talented-women-of-the-zhang-family-paperback","title":"The Talented Women of the Zhang Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Mann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Mann illuminates a China that has been largely invisible. Drawing on a stunning array of primary materials--published poetry, gazetteer articles, memorabilia--as well as a variety of other historical documents, Mann reconstructs these women's intimate relationships, personal aspirations, values, ideas, and political consciousness. She transforms our understanding of gender relations and what it meant to be an educated woman during China's transition from empire to nation and offers a new view of the history of late imperial women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is absolutely nothing remotely like this book in the history of late imperial women. [An] immensely important book.--Gail Hershatter, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen in China's Long Twentieth Century \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterful work.\"--Lynn Hunt, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Cultural Turn \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Mann\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at University of California, Davis, and was president of the Association of Asian Studies 1999-2000. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLocal Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950 \u003c\/i\u003e(1987) and \u003ci\u003ePrecious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), which won the Joseph Levenson Prize. She is also coeditor of \u003ci\u003eUnder Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History \u003c\/i\u003e(UC Press, 2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 9.01 x 6.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45054519246987,"sku":"9780520250901","price":82.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/bWFWUU51RGs3MGMwY3puMWFmU3FIZz09.webp?v=1767225311","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/the-talented-women-of-the-zhang-family-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}