Title : Women in the Time of the Emperors of China - Danielle Elisseeff - book

Summary :

Imperial China, land of the "Middle Ground" but also of terrible excesses, has always been a dream of the West: a land of silk, porcelain, and flower girls with rosebud smiles, moving gracefully on tiny feet. A superficial and mawkish vision of a barbaric traveler, but a gentle, reassuring image that the Chinese themselves loved to evoke. For perhaps no other civilization has feared women so much, seeing them as strange, disturbing beings, capable of the best and the worst. Danielle Elisseeff, archivist-paleographer, doctor of Far Eastern studies, and one of the best current specialists on China, recounts the difficult journey of Chinese women under the Empire, to situate themselves in a world that distrusted them, a difficult and long journey since it spans two millennia and has its roots deep in Prehistory. Destinies unfold in a relentless unfolding - seduction, love, cruelty, terror. An unforgettable saga where the thrill of life combines with the breath of epic.

• EAN : 9782253052852
  
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