The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.

The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.

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

"The poetry proves again that stereotypes mislead. Chinese verse is supposedly cool and distant, detached and dispassionate. The opposite seems true; poets are

Scholars from the fields of literature, history, and art history apply a range of methodologies to newly discovered works by women writers and to other sources