Download or read book Beyond Exemplar Tales written by Joan Judge and published by Global, Area, and International Archive. This book was released on 2011 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women's biography. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, from formal biography to poetry, letters, and oral interviews, the authors examine how women's biography served particular cultural, political, and world-making projects, and how it illuminates these projects in new ways by highlighting tensions within and between them. --Book Jacket.