ISBN10: 0732611741, ISBN13: 9780732611743, [publisher: Monash Asia Institute, Clayton] Softcover First Edition SIGNED in full by contributing author Tanya McIntyre in blue ink on half-title page. McIntyre contributes the chapter titled Images of Women in Popular Prints. Edited by Antonia Finnane & Anne McLaren. Several contributors, including Tanya McIntyre, Ye Xiaoquing, Christine Mathieu, Kate Burridge, Ng Bee-Chi, & others. Illustrated in b&w. With comprehensive printed footnotes. Includes an introduction, plus index. From rear cover (in part): "Women's dress, women's writing, women's bodies, women's work, women as portrayed by themselves and others in literature and the arts: these are among the topics addressed in this wide-ranging collection of essays written by scholars working in a number of different areas of Chinese studies. Until recently, academic studies of Chinese women inhabited the more exotic reaches of sinology. The present volume is a contribution to a body of scholarship which over the past ten years has succeeded in transforming the field". A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. xxiii + 290pp. Uncommon title, scarce signed copy. RARE. SB-2.
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1999] ...
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