Description
About the Author
Ronald C. Egan is Professor of Sinology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University.
Reviews
The number of song lyrics that may be reliably identified as Li's is halved to 36 and none is conclusively dated, while previous interpretations tied to assumptions about her life are disproved. Egan analyzes this small corpus in a tour de force entirely free of biography. But what is most valuable is that he replaces the myths with convincing portraits of Li's thinking and actions that draw on her prose as well as poetry, developing them with sense, sensitivity and erudition... The insights of this study will elicit as much respect for her grit and her suppressed, defiant, unrealized ambitions as for her poetry. The first work of this kind in any language, The Burden of Female Talent is both grand synthesis and original scholarship, with a clear style that makes a complex story easy to follow. -- Eva Shan Chou * Times Higher Education *
Awards
Nominated for Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2015 and ICAS Book Prize 2015.
Book Information
ISBN 9780674726697
Author Ronald C. Egan
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Harvard University, Asia Center
Publisher Harvard University, Asia Center