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Learning from a Woman: Ming Literati Responses to Tanyangzi.

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Waltner, Ann – International Journal of Social Education, 1991

Tells the story of Tanyangzi, a young visionary and religious teacher in Ming China. Discusses writings relating to her life and teachings. Emphasizes the concern with chastity, publicity, and fictionality as they relate to the male view of female virtue among men of the late Ming period. (DK)

Descriptors: Buddhism, Chinese Culture, Confucianism, Cultural Influences

Martyred Matrons, Martial Maidens, and the Woman Reader: Some Sino-Japanese Comparisons.

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Widmer, Ellen – International Journal of Social Education, 1991

Discusses the relationship between the prominence of themes of the literate gentry woman in Chinese fiction and the rise of women poets. Examines later Japanese fiction to find influences of the woman reader and of earlier Chinese works. Explores the scholar-beauty novels, women as warriors, female martyrdom, and the equating of virtue with…

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Authors, Chinese Culture, Confucianism