16-18 shi ji Zhongguo jiang nan di qu de nü xing yu chu ban wen hua: yi gui xiu ji de kan ke yu bao cun wei zhong xin = Women and print culture in jiangnan region in late imperial China : a study of the publishing and preservation of women’s works

Ph.D.The woodblock printing stepped onto the stage of prosperity in late imperial China, especially in Jiangnan region, producing amounts of anthologies and collections among literati. There was also a sudden increase of women’s works printed in 16-18 centuries. This phenome n on has aroused lots of scholars interests from 1980s. But the institutional factors concerning women’s enthusiasm in printing seems still unclear.For literary women, writing and printing is not only a way of self expression but also a way to construct their identities as an ideal Guixiu. Women themselves, their families, the local and central government we re closely involved in the constructing process. To make it more clear, my research tries to illustrate it in third aspects. First, how did printing culture redefine and reshape the title of Guixiu which led to the transfer of women s writing group from courtesans to gentry women. Second, to cope with the gender tension arisen from women s printing enthusiasm, the central institutions promoted several official printing anthologies aiming at guiding women’s writing and publishing activities, and then, reconstructing gender order and public morality. Finally, from institutional perspective, women can record their talent and morality through the printed works, which can complement the deficiency of women’s purity stele system. This double track system was an efficient way for them to pursue women's own immortality after death.隆慶、萬曆以降，江南的書籍出版進入黃金時段，不僅士人爭相編寫刻印自己的作品，女性作品的出版也越發普遍。針對這一現象，前人已有相當豐富的研究成果，但拋開雕版技術革新、社會秩序鬆動和女性教育等背景性質的因素，出版文化為何能夠在婦女中風行依然缺乏深入的研究。寫作和出版對於女性而言，不僅僅是自我表達的手段，同樣也是塑造身份的重要途徑。而在這一過程中，女性本身、家庭、地方和中央都扮演了重要的角色。因此，本研究從三個方面來討論這一問題。第一：出版如何影響和塑造了明清的閨秀群體，進而引發了 16-18 世紀名妓文化向閨秀文化的過渡。第二：中央和地方如何應對女性出版帶來的性別緊張，並以官刻女性選集引導和重塑性別秩序和公共道德。第三：在制度層面， 旌表制度和女性出版的雙軌制如何相互作用，實現女性才德的統一，客觀上促進女性出版文化的持續繁榮。以及最重要的一點，女性如何利用出版文化，最終實現個人的不朽。王紅梅."2019年7月".Parallel title from added title page.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2019.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-192).Abstracts in Chinese and English.Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 22, 2022).Wang Hongmei