"Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarter

A collection of five erotic stories from Ming dynasty China, in English for the first time.

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 app

To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian tex

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