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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the ...
Her book presents a picture of a United States still changing in its reciprocal influence with China. [3] At the same time, the title reflects a deliberate rejection of American racism against the Chinese : whereas the term " Chinaman " was a common slur (such as in John Chinaman ), the Chinese referred to themselves as the "China Men" of the ...
Tomoe Gozen (巴 御前, Japanese pronunciation: [5]) was an onna-musha, a female samurai, mentioned in The Tale of the Heike. [6] There is doubt as to whether she existed as she doesn't appear in any primary accounts of the Genpei war. She only appears in the epic "The tale of the Heike".
The image of samurai women continues to be impactful in martial arts, historical novels, books, and popular culture in general. [42] Like kunoichi (female ninja) and geisha, the onna-musha's conduct is seen as the ideal of Japanese women in movies, animations and TV series.
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Eulhwa was adapted from Kim Dong-ri's 1936 short story "Munyeodo" (무녀도 The Way of the Shaman) and was published by Munhaksasang in 1978. Through depicting the life of a woman whose fate turns her to the path of a Shaman, Eulhwa explores the struggles between traditional Korean mysticism and modern rationalism. [1]
A miko (), or shrine maiden, [1] [2] is a young priestess [3] who works at a Shinto shrine. Miko were once likely seen as shamans, [4] but are understood in modern Japanese culture to be an institutionalized [5] role in daily life, trained to perform tasks, ranging from sacred cleansing [4] to performing the sacred Kagura dance.
1922: a shaman of the Itneg people renewing an offering to the spirit of a warrior's shield [1] A performer depicting a shaman in a recent Babaylan Festival of Bago, Negros Occidental Filipino shamans , commonly known as babaylan (also balian or katalonan , among many other names), were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial ...