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Discovering the Bond between Traditional Chinese Women and Women’s Script: The Culture of Nüshu
NOTICE: The original paper is available at Academia.edu.
Women in distinct contexts
- Confucian patriarchal politics
- Modern and contemporary China
Correction of misunderstanding
- Nüshu culture is not only composed of Nüshu: Nüge
- Nüge is even more popular than Nüshu within traditional Chinese woman community (most women are not literate but can speak the local dialect)
- Recognition but not Subversion
- Struggle for more rights
- Unfairly mistreated by men
- constant Confucian surveillance & cultural hegemony
Functionality
- Biography, majorly lamentation of miseries
- Secret letters among sworn sisters
- Sanzhaoshu (wedding missive)
- Worship verses
- Narratives and transcription of hanzi works
Comparisons
- Namelessness and fertility: Venus of Willendorf
- Inferiority and oppression: black spirituals ↔ child bride
- Constant surveillance and hegemony: Panopticon
Conclusion
- many forms (papers, books; handicrafts: handkerchiefs, towels, fans; oral performance: nüge);
- express “true selves”;
- have narratives of feminist work, but more to be recognition of patriarchy (seen from lamentation as the major function);
- inferior -> fight for equality, legal protection (nüshu practitioner didn’t attempt to challenge authority -> but inspired contemporary women to do so)
- After Liberation: crisis of demise + inspiration of gender studies and anthropologists
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