Author: Mann, Susan &Cheng, Yu-Yin; editors:
Title: Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiii,310 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contais 18 translations from 9th to 19th Centuries. Includes: Biography of the Daoist Saint Wang Fengxian by Du Guangting (850-933); Biography of the Great Compassionate One of Xiangshan by Jiang Zhiqi (1031-1104); 'The Book of Filial Piety' for Women Attributed to a Woman Née Zheng (ca. 730); Funerary Writings by Chen Liang (1143-1194); "The Customs of Various Barbarians" by Li Jing (1251 - ?); Selected Writings by Luo Rufang (1515-1588); 'Final Instructions' by Yang Jisheng (1516-1555); "Record of Past Karma" by Ji Xian (1614-1683); "Letter to My Sons" by Gu Ruopu (1592-ca.1681); Personal Letters in 17th-Century Epistolary Guides; Letters by Women of the Ming-Qing Period; Selected Short Works by Wang Duanshu (1621-after 1701); Two Ghost Stories from Liaizhai's' Records of the Strange' by Pu Songling (1640-1715); Two Biographies by Zhang Xuecheng (1738- 1801); Poems on Tea-Picking; Drinking Wine & Reading 'Encountering Sorrow': A Reflection in Disguise by Wu Zao (1799-1862); A Brief Record of the Eastern Ocean by Ding Shaoyi (fl. 1847); The "Eating Crabs" Youth Book.

Keywords: Chinese Literature, Gender, Women, China, Literary History, East Asia, , ,