Nationalism, Feminism, and Martial Valor: Rewriting Biographies of Women in Nüzi Shijie (1904-1907)
Nationalism, Feminism, and Martial Valor: Rewriting Biographies of Women in Nüzi shijie (1904-1907) Eavan Cully Department of East Asian Studies McGill University, Montreal November 2008 A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts. © Eavan Cully 2008. 1 Acknowledgements This thesis could not have been completed without the encouragement and helpful criticism of a number of people. I would like to thank my colleagues at McGill University, including Rongdao Lai, Afra Tucker, Ana Selles, Fiona Lau, Lin Fan and Chris Byrne for their constant encouragement and support. I especially would like to thank Fiona Lau and Afra Tucker: Fiona for her considerable help in translating these biographies and Afra for translating my abstract into French. Special thanks are owed to my advisor, Professor Grace Fong, for her useful suggestions and critiques over the numerous drafts of this thesis that she has been generous enough to read. Finally, however small an impact this thesis might have on the larger scholarship of late Qing feminisms, it has taken over a good part of my life for the past two years, and by unfortunate extension, it has also claimed much of the time and attention of my partner, Gregory Scott. To him I owe untold thanks for his incredible patience, endless cheer, and insightful criticisms. Although separated by uncompromising geography, he has been at my side for every step of this project. Although this thesis has benefited from the comments of many, I remain solely responsible for any lasting errors or inconsistencies.
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