Wednesday Gender Seminars
Private Emotion, Public Commemoration: Poems of Mourning by Widows in Late Imperial China(in English)
This paper examines how widows in the Ming and Qing periods engaged with the poetic subgenres of mourning, which had been developed by male poets in the literary tradition, both to inscribe personal feelings and commemorate their husbands’ lives. Examples of the formal subgenre designated dao wang (mourning the deceased) are drawn from the literary collections of women writers made available in the McGill-Harvard-Yenching Library Joint Digitization Project on Ming Qing Women’s Writings (http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing). In these women’s act of commemorating, biographical remembrance is inseparable from autobiographical recollection.
Date: 30 January 2008 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Venue: UG05 Chen Kou Bun Building, Chung Chi College, CUHK
Speaker: Grace S. Fong (Associate Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies, McGill University, Canada; Project Editor, Ming Qing Women's Writings http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing)
Chair: Prof. Tung Yuan Fang (Professor, Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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