The sword or the needle
Chinese literatureHistory and criticismKnights and knighthood in literatureWomen in literatureChinese literature, history and criticism
Focusing on narratives about female knights-errant (xia) along thematic lines in Chinese literacy history, this text provides an overview of the narrative subgenre, the literary representation of gender and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative.
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