Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women's experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and religion. Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize these materials. They question...
Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable tex...
Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers' participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong's recovery of many of these poets, her able exegesis and elegant, analytical grasp of what the poets were doing is a great read, and her bilingual presentation of their poetry gives the book additional power. This is a persuasive and elegant study. --Tani Barlow, author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
In this quietly authoritative book, Grace Fong has brought a group of women poets back to life. Previously ignored by scholars because of their...
Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers' participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong's recovery of many of...
