Hu ying qiu jin autobiography
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Moonlight seeps into this tall pavilion.
The melancholy of longing, here and elsewhere.
The autumn moon is a common motif within Chinese poetry, shining often upon geographies of homesickness and longing. In your poem, “Púsāmán: To a Female Friend,” written over a hundred and twenty years ago, the moon casts its light on a different kind of yearning—the search for a zhīyīn 知音. Literally “the one who can truly understand your songs,” a zhīyīn is a close friend, a kindred spirit, a queerplatonic soulmate who shares your deepest ideals. If I had lived in the same era as you, amidst the tumultuous sociopolitical changes of the late Qīng dynasty, the backdrop against which your feminist views emerged, might we have crossed paths and even become each other’s zhīyīn?
But more than a century has passed since your death, and I live here in Vancouver, an ocean’s distance away from your final resting place by the West Lake in Hángzhōu. The only thing I can do is to glance up at the moon that we still share, bright and wistful as ever. As I read and savor the melody of your words, I wait alone in this room for your voice to rise from among the pages, slowly, to cross time and distance, until it’s as if we’re sitting side by sid
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- Bib ID:
- 7202243
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hu, Ying, 1962-, author
- Description:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2016
- ©2016
- xiii, 380 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780674737204 (hardback)
- 0674737202 (hardack)
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 391. 0073-0483
- Summary:
"A linked biographical study of the enduring friendship of three women writers--Qiu Jin, Wu Zhiying. and Xu Zihua--in late Qing and early Republican China".
- Full contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Wu Zhiying
- "Heir of Tongcheng"
- Friendship in the Capital
- Wielding the Brush in Public
- 2.Xu Zihua
- "Like a Scholar"
- Harmonizing with Friends
- Poet of Virtue
- 3.Qiu Jin
- "Besieged"
- Sworn Sisters
- Embodying the Swordsman
- Death Pledge
- Interlude: "Autumn Wind, Autumn Rain"
- 4.The Arts of Mourning
- Biography
- Poetry
- Burial
- 5.After the Revolution
- Responding to Change
- Speaking Collectively
- The Martyr's Afterlives.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Text includes some Chinese text and phrases.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Harvard University. Asia Center, publisher
- Copyright:
In Copyright
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