This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in trad
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poet
"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 p
This is a study of Chinese gentry women’s poems on the theme of travel written during the late imperial period (ca.1600–1911), when Chinese women’s litera
Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship has called attention to several hundred wh