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 n???shu. The book addresses questions such as what drove peasant women to create a script of their own and write, and how do those writings throw new light on how gender is addressed in epistemology and historiography. With the concept of "expressive depths," this book opens a new vista on how women express themselves through multiple forms ...
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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 n???shu. The book addresses questions such as what drove peasant women to create a script of their own and write, and how do those writings throw new light on how gender is addressed in epistemology and historiography. With the concept of "expressive depths," this book opens a new vista on how women express themselves through multiple forms that simultaneously echo and critique the mainstream social system and urges a rethinking of how forms of expression define and confine the voice carried.
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