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Since Westerners first came into contact with China, there has been an interest in Chinese women, seen as so alien. In recent years, feminism has focused on this ancient culture and novels like Lady Tan’s, “Circle of Women” have explored the lives of those who ‘transcended’ what is seen as millennia of oppression. But how accurate are they? Dorothy Trench Bonett will present recent research about imperial China, often from women’s own writings, to answer this question. (See related class #367).
