Leaves of Prayer: The Life and Poetry of He Shuangqing, a Farmwife in Eighteenth-Century China by Choy, Elsie

Leaves of Prayer: The Life and Poetry of He Shuangqing, a Farmwife in Eighteenth-Century China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789622018839)

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Leaves of Prayer: The Life and Poetry of He Shuangqing, a Farmwife in Eighteenth-Century China by Choy, Elsie

Leaves of Prayer: The Life and Poetry of He Shuangqing, a Farmwife in Eighteenth-Century China

$32.00
Leaves of Prayer: The Life and Poetry of He Shuangqing, a Farmwife in Eighteenth-Century China by Choy, Elsie

Leaves of Prayer: The Life and Poetry of He Shuangqing, a Farmwife in Eighteenth-Century China

$32.00
Format: Hardcover
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This is an authentic history of a Chinese female poet, He Shuangqing. She lived at a time when people regarded men as superior to women. However, she was fortunate to have some scholar acquaintances who were open-minded. They spurned the traditional attitude towards her sex and showed their appreciation of her poems and her attitude towards life. One of the scholars, Shi Zhenlin, wrote down and recorded her life and poetry in his book Xiqing sanji (West Green Random Notes) so that her poems could be read by more people. Leaves of Prayer is a translation of Xiqing sanji.

Part 1 gives an introduction to Shi Zhenlin's Xiqing sanji and He Shuangqing, the poet. Part 2 is a translation of Xiqing sanji which narrates the vicissitudes of He Shuangqing's life. Part 3 lists the poems of He Shuangqing with their originals written in Chinese calligraphy.

Author: Elsie Choy
ISBN-10: 9622018831
ISBN-13: 9789622018839
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.65h x 5.81w x 0.89d
By Elsie Choy
By Elsie Choy
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Elsie Choy's background spans both America and China, from where her paternal grandparents emigrated to Hawaii in the 1800s. Born in Shanghai, she was raised in both cultures, tutored in the Chinese classics and attended both Chinese and American schools in that city. She worked at the Columbia University on a research project on contemporary cultures under the direction of Ruth Benedict, then Margaret Mead after Benedict's death.

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