Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss
(Book #391 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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"Autumn wind, autumn rain, fill my heart with sorrow"--these were the last words of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), written before she was beheaded for plotting to overthrow the Qing empire. Eventually, she would be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first feminist, her last words committed to memory by schoolchildren. Yet during her lifetime she was often seen as eccentric, even deviant; in her death, and still more in the forced abandonment of her...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674737202
ISBN13:9780674737204
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:400 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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