Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China
by
Fei-wen Liu
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan Province in south China, this book explores the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing "women's script" known as nüshu. What drove peasant women to create a script of their own and write, and how do those writings throw new...