How Long to Read Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 7 minutes to read Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction by Li Guo

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Women’s tanci, or “plucking rhymes,” are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864), as well as their depictions of warfare and social unrest. Women tanci authors’ redefinition of female exemplarity within the Confucian orthodox discourses of virtue, talent, chastity, and political integrity could be bourgeoning expressions of female exceptionalism and could have foreshadowed protofeminist ideals of heroism. They establish a realistic tenor in affirming feminine domestic authority, and open up spaces for discussions of “womanly becoming,” female exceptionalism, and shifting family power structures. The vernacular mode underlying these texts yields productive possibilities of gendered self-representations, bodily valences, and dynamic performances of sexual roles. The result is a vernacular discursive frame that enables women’s appropriation and refashioning of orthodox moral values as means of self-affirmation and self-realization. Validations of women’s political activism and loyalism to the nation attest to tanci as a premium vehicle for disseminating progressive social incentives to popular audiences. Women’s tanci marks early modern writers’ endeavors to carve out a space of feminine becoming, a discursive arena of feminine appropriation, reinvention, and boundary-crossings. In this light, women’s tanci portrays gendered mobility through depictions of a heroine’s voyages or social ascent, and entails a forward-moving historical progression toward a more autonomous and vested model of feminine subjectivity.

How long is Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction?

Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction by Li Guo is 298 pages long, and a total of 76,884 words.

This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours to read Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction?

Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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