Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music

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Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music is written by Maghiel van Crevel and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9047441419 (ISBN 10) and 9789047441410 (ISBN 13).

Wilt Idema is one of the world's leading scholars and translators of Chinese literature, with research interests ranging from classical poetry to premodern fiction, performance literature and women's writing. His oeuvre is exceptional in its inclusiveness and its ability to let different historical periods, genres and issues speak to one another, and to make the riches of Chinese literature accessible to a wide range of readers. In honor of his work, this collection brings together new research by twenty-two prominent scholars in a field of tremendous scope and diversity, on topics including genre characteristics, literary representations of social and political history, gender and cultural identity, music, autobiography, women's writing, internet literature and more.