Letters & works

Stories sung in women’s script

Narrative ballads offer another path into the women’s reading world.

Wilt L. Idema’s Heroines of Jiangyong presents English translations of narrative ballads recorded in Nüshu.

Published by University of Washington Press in 2009, the book connects literary form with the lives of daughters, wives and mothers.

Credits: 书目来源：University of Washington Press，Wilt L. Idema，2009。