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Judge, Joan, and Hu Ying, eds. Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. ISBN 978-0-9845909-0-2. 446pp. $44.95 (paperback).

Judge, Joan, and Hu Ying, eds. Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History .... Book Reviews And most important of all, it is an eloquent book, a quality which is not always found in scholarly discourse, thus enjoyable to read. Su-Ya Chang Academia Sinica E-mail: mhsuya@gate.sinica.edu.tw Judge, Joan, and Hu Ying, eds. Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. ISBN 978-0-9845909-0-2. 446pp. $44.95 (paperback). DOI 10.3868/s020-002-013-0019-8 This volume brings together accounts of biographies of women covering a span of history from the Han dynasty to the mid-twentieth century. Its aim is to define and provide interpretive clues on the genre. It is, as the editors Joan Judge and Hu Ying point out, partly a study of epistemology, as many of the authors grapple with the issue of whether or not historians can claim to know the lives, including the inner worlds, of Chinese women through time, using biographical information. That seems to me a bit of a "straw wo/man," for knowledge of historical subjects is always mediated by sources. Nonetheless, the contributors, writing from the perspective of history or literature studies, bring a wide variety of viewpoints to bear on questions of the usefulness of women's biography http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers of History in China Brill

Judge, Joan, and Hu Ying, eds. Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. ISBN 978-0-9845909-0-2. 446pp. $44.95 (paperback).

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Frontiers of History in China , Volume 8 (2): 297 – Jan 1, 2013
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Book Reviews And most important of all, it is an eloquent book, a quality which is not always found in scholarly discourse, thus enjoyable to read. Su-Ya Chang Academia Sinica E-mail: mhsuya@gate.sinica.edu.tw Judge, Joan, and Hu Ying, eds. Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society. ISBN 978-0-9845909-0-2. 446pp. $44.95 (paperback). DOI 10.3868/s020-002-013-0019-8 This volume brings together accounts of biographies of women covering a span of history from the Han dynasty to the mid-twentieth century. Its aim is to define and provide interpretive clues on the genre. It is, as the editors Joan Judge and Hu Ying point out, partly a study of epistemology, as many of the authors grapple with the issue of whether or not historians can claim to know the lives, including the inner worlds, of Chinese women through time, using biographical information. That seems to me a bit of a "straw wo/man," for knowledge of historical subjects is always mediated by sources. Nonetheless, the contributors, writing from the perspective of history or literature studies, bring a wide variety of viewpoints to bear on questions of the usefulness of women's biography

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