Author: Ko, Dorothy
Title: Teachers of the Inner Chambers : Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1994. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xviii,395 pp, A slight dent to rear cover side-edge.. Textual map & illustrations.. Minor rubbing. Some light binding soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Gender & the Politics of Chinese History; Social & Private Histories: In the Floating World: Women & Commercial Publishing; The Enchantment of Love in 'The Peony Pavilion'; Womanhood: Margins of Domesticity: Enlarging the Woman's Sphere; Talent, Virtue, & Beauty: Rewriting Womanhood; Women's Culture: Domestic Communities: Male & Female Domains; Social & Public Communities: Genealogies Across Time & Space; Transitory Communities: Courtesan, Wife & Professional Artist; Epilogue.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Qing Dynasty Ming, Seventeenth Century, Imperial China, East Asia, Chinese Literature, Literary Criticism, Women Gender, Social History