This study focussing on narratives about female knights-errant (nüxia) cuts along a thematic line in Chinese literary history, and thus seeks to contribute to understanding and appreciation mainly in three fields of inquiry: the formation of narrative subgenre; the literary representation of gender; and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative. It traces the processes of textual collecting, editing, rewriting, and intertextual referencing by which narratives about female knights-errant were invented as, and forged into, a thematic sub-genre. The narratives about a character type who boldly transgresses gender boundaries are studied as an exemplary case for a general inquiry into the subversive significance of images of gender-bending strong female characters in the Chinese narrative tradition. Finally, the present study investigates into representations of the practice of Chinese knight-errantry, which includes assassination for social policing, private vengeance, and banditry.

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«This is the most comprehensive English-language study to date of Chinese narratives about female knights-errant or swordswomen ('nüxia'). (...) Altenburger's research is thorough, and his examinations of texts are careful, cogently argued, and meticulously documented. Summing Up: Highly recommended.» (Y. Wu, Choice)
«'The Sword or the Needle' est un ouvrage passionnant, riche et novateur, qui jette sur les femmes de la Chine traditionnelle un regard décalé mais particulièrement instructif.» (Nicolas Zufferey, Études chinoises)
«This is a fine book with a wealth of detail about 'nüxia' narratives in Chinese culture from Tang times to the 1930s. [...] Altenburger's insistence on the ambiguity, complexity, and importance of the female knight-errant tradition is well taken. He has written a comprehensive and erudite study that deserves a wide reading.» (Paul S. Ropp, China Review International 18, 2011/1)

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