She is a fragment and a whole – a narratives of nushu artefacts

UM > Faculty of Education

Status	已發表Published
	She is a fragment and a whole – a narratives of nushu artefacts
	Lo, Y. Y. P.
	2013-02-01
Source Publication	Australian Feminist Studies
ISSN	0816-4649
Pages	398-416
Abstract	Exclusively used by women over generations, nüshu, women’s script, had remained a secret among women within the township of Shangjiangxu in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China, until the mid-1950s. Writings in nüshu are found on papers, paper fans, booklets, and some are embroidered on fabrics. The use of nüshu has died and it is no longer practised. I travelled into the region three times and visited some elderly women who shared with me their experiences of nüshu in embroidering, weaving, chanting and writing. I am recapturing here some accounts of these women, who developed their own means of creative communication asserting themselves. With their modest artefacts in nüshu, the women expressed their concerns, in turn defined for themselves positive terms in the contexts they lived. The rhetoric of the writing is interwoven with individual and collective memories, fragmentary and repetitive, recalling a dying culture which once united the women in an exclusive sisterhood, at the same time delivering a genealogy of their being, which was forgotten in history.
Keyword	Nüshu women’s script artefact memory container chanting writing
Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	11308
Document Type	Journal article
Collection	Faculty of Education
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Lo, Y. Y. P.. She is a fragment and a whole – a narratives of nushu artefacts[J]. Australian Feminist Studies, 2013, 398-416.
APA	Lo, Y. Y. P..(2013). She is a fragment and a whole – a narratives of nushu artefacts. Australian Feminist Studies, 398-416.
MLA	Lo, Y. Y. P.."She is a fragment and a whole – a narratives of nushu artefacts".Australian Feminist Studies (2013):398-416.

Files in This Item:
There are no files associated with this item.

If you have any objections to this item, please fill out the form below and the administrator will contact you as soon as possible.
Content:
Email：	*
Affiliation No.
Verification Code:	Refresh

Any comments and suggestions are welcomed.
Title:	*
Content:
Email：	*
Verification Code:	Refresh