HUMA 1400 Chapter Notes -Chen Yun, Legitimation, Foot Binding
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Black jade: private tuition; studied the classics, poetry, the zither . Poet lin yining"s determination to emerge from the inner chambers a great scholar. Chen yun (six records of a life adrift): memorized mandolin balled. When learning to speak, later used it to teach herself how to read. Yuan mei"s daughter, chenggu & failure to have a son. > campaigns usually by male government officials or educated urban males and females. * problems: pain, corruption, (sexual) abuse, sisterhood , public exposure/ridicule, tradition. > gu zhiqiong"s poems expressing (her own) sexual desire. > insistence of not marrying any person other than that of one"s particularly beloved. Three followings and four womanly accomplishments : as a girl, follow father; as a wife, follow husband; as a widow, follow eldest son. , morality ; physical charm ; propriety in speech ; efficiency in needlework . Lack of talent in a woman is a virtue .
