Testimony of a Confucian Woman: The Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942

JIFEN, Nie Zeng; KENNEDY, Thomas L (trans)

ISBN 10: 0820315095 / ISBN 13: 9780820315096

Published by University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1993

About this Item

8vo. Publisher's original red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. li, 199. A knock to top edges of boards, else a very bright, likely unread copy.

Seller Inventory # 00006196

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Testimony of a Confucian Woman: The Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820315095
• ISBN 13: 9780820315096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • China, culture and history

About this title

Synopsis

The autobiography of a woman who, living through the most dramatic changes in modern Chinese history, her life mirroring the changes in family life in China in the transition from a bureaucratic to a bourgeois society, found ways of extending her influence to shape the careers of her family.

About the Author

Thomas L. Kennedy is a professor of history at Washington State University.