The Talented Women of the Zhang Family » (1st Edition)

Susan Mann is Professor of History at University of California, Davis, and was president of the Association of Asian Studies 1999-2000. She is the author of Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950 (1987) and Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century (1997), which won the Joseph Levenson Prize. She is also coeditor of Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History (UC Press, 2001).

"There is absolutely nothing remotely like this book in the history of late imperial women. [An] immensely important book."—Gail Hershatter, author of Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

"A masterful work."—Lynn Hunt, coeditor of Beyond the Cultural Turn

List of Illustrations Genealogical Chart of the Zhang Family and Their Collateral Kin Prologue

1 Jining, Shandong (1893-1895)
2 Tang Yaoqing, Guixiu (1763-1831)
3 Zhang Qieying, Poet (1792-after 1863)
4 Wang Caipin, Governess (1826-1893)
Epilogue. The Historian Says . . .

Zhang Family Chronology Glossary of Names Glossary of Terms Appendix. Selected Poems and Song Lyrics Notes References Acknowledgments
Index