Epistolary Gentility of Literary Women in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Crises, Health, and Friendship in Ding Shanyi's Letters

Focusing on Correspondence from the Double-Cassia Studio (Shuanggui xuan chidu 雙桂軒尺牘), a collection of letters by a gentlewoman named Ding Shanyi 丁善儀 (1799-after 1861), this paper examines how elite women in mid-nine- teenth-century China applied epistolary conventions in their social life. Com- par...

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Main Author: Cai, Danni (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: American Oriental Society 2022
In: Journal of the American Oriental Society
Year: 2022, Volume: 142, Issue: 3, Pages: 523-546
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