Flesh and Stone: Competing Narratives of Female Martyrdom from Late Imperial to Contemporary China

My dissertation focuses on the making of Chinese female martyrs to explore how representations serve as a strategy to either justify or question the normalization of the horrors of untimely death. It examines the narratives of female martyrdom in Chinese literature from late imperial to modern China...

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Main Author: Wang, Xian
Other Authors: Epstein, Maram
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23910