"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

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

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