简介: 我站在路口,透过滚滚沙尘向前看,他们说那里还有没被砍伐的森林.昨天我开车出去,途经之地,是绵延数英里的树桩,还有火后黑炭般的余烬.可就在1956年,这里还是我所见过的最美丽的森林.现在,所有的一切都毁掉了.人们得吃饭.他们需要有烧火的燃料.……
简介:Womenwritersasananalyticalcategoryhassincethelate1990sgainedconsiderabletractioninthestudiesofpre-modernChineseliterature,withtranslations,anthologies,andthematicexplorationssurfacinganeweveryfewyearsineithermonographsoreditedvolumes.Referencetofeministliterarycriticismasananalyticalframework,however,isstillafairlyrecentdevelopment—thatis,untilRonaldEgan’sdefinitiveworkunderreviewhereonthemostwell-knownfemalepoetoftheentireChinesetradition,LiQingzhao李清照(1084-ca.1155).Notonlyisthis11-chapter,422-pagetreatmentofasinglewomanafirstinEnglishscholarship,Egan’stheoreticalstancealsomarksadeparturefromearlierworksthatplacetheirsubjectmattersinamorenativecontext.ThatalonemakesTheBurdenofFemaleTalentamustreadforallstudentsofChineseliterature.Moreover,throughoutthewholebookEganneverallowstheoreticaldiscussiontoovershadowhisfocusedanalysesofLiQingzhaoandthecircumstancesandchallengesshefacedasawomanwriter,thusretainingthedistinctiveappealofthebooktothemoretraditionalreadershipofSinology.Thisisnottodiscount,however,Egan’sconversancewithfeministcriticism;infact,his“substantialdebt”(p.8)toitisveryrecognizable,sincetheunderlyingapproachesarefullysubsumableundermuchofthepreoccupationsandassumptionsoffeministliterarytheory—and,consequently,susceptibletocritiquesofthetheoryingeneral.