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

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

An invaluable resource to scholars of literary and intellectual movements in late imperial and modern China, sexuality, gender, literary decadence, modernism, c

Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy, and poetry were cross-fertil