From Convention to Subversion: Case Studies on the Female Gaze in Premodern China

GRACE S. FONG is professor of Chinese literature and Richard Charles & Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Cultural Studies, McGill University. She was Guggenheim Fellow 2011–2012. Her research focuses on classical Chinese poetry and women's literature of the Ming and Qing periods. She is director of the Ming Qing Women's Writings digital archive and database project (https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/) and editor in chief of the Women and Gender in China Studies series published by Brill. She is the author of Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (eBook edition, 2016) and co-editor of The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing (2010) and Representing Lives in China: Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period 1368–1911 (2018).