...Grace S. Fong Abstract This article engages the ekphrastic mode—the literary representation of visual representation—to examine the female gaze instantiated in women's poetry on paintings of beautiful women in the Ming and Qing periods. Through four case studies, it shows how women poets...

... the poetry and prose of a female writer, Qian Xi, and her writing activities associated with this divination. Qian claims that the spirits she communicated with include several female immortals and her deceased husband. Some of the questions the author explores are: What are the characteristics of Qian's...

... for a libertine husband like Yishao. Through close reading, the author demonstrates how this female writer assesses and reimagines the standards of ideal women established by the classics and their male authors. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 virtuous wife shrew female writer tanci...

...Lara C. W. Blanchard Abstract Yutai huashi (History of Painting from Jade Terrace), published in 1837, is rare among Chinese art-historical texts, not only for its focus on women painters of the imperial period but also for its female authorship. While the text preserves information on women who...

...Guojun Wang; Guo Yingde Abstract Recent studies of Chinese history and literature have revealed the important role of violence—actual and representational—in constructing gendered subjectivities in late imperial China. This article investigates the relationship between violence and female agency...

... of eight years later dedicated to Liu by her close female associate, Huang Jieling (ca. 1620–ca. 1669), and a long commemorative preface that Qian Qianyi wrote for Huang in 1651 reminiscing on bygone glory through the topos of their beloved Jianyun Library that tragically burnt down in 1650. Through...

... and their acquaintances—namely, Shang Jinglan (1605–1676); her husband, Qi Biaojia (1602–1645); her children; and her male and female acquaintances—this article argues that gender relations significantly influenced not only Shang's writing but also the social-cultural meaning of the family garden. Shang's life before...

... an independent life and a self-image, echoed by observers, of Daoist detachment from the proverbial dust of the world while cultivating relationships with prominent male mentors and female artists across Jiangnan. As poet, painter, and player of the zither and the game of Go, Wang Liang at times articulated...

...-Xu relationship became well known, most talented women who sought instruction still chose to work with female teachers, but some pursued the new alternative of working with a talented man. 31. Hu W., Lidai , 478 . 32. Xiefang ji jiaobu , 1550 ; see the commentary from Xuezhai suibi 學...

... who carried the legacy of their Ming-Qing predecessors into the Republican era: Wang Wenru 王文濡 (1867–1935) and his Xiangyan zazhi 香艷雜誌 (Xiangyan Magazine, 1914–1916) and Gu Xianrong 顧憲融 (1901–1955), who published the Hongfan jingshe nü dizi ji 紅梵精舍女弟子集 (Collection of Female Disciples from the Abode...

..., he sends flower spirits-turned-girls to China for the female examinations, here interpreted as an enterprise to fictionalize the examination system. Thus the narrative of the girls' participation in the exams and ensuing celebrations in later chapters becomes a fiction within the fiction. Discussing...

...Mengjun Li Abstract The early Qing (1644–1911) midlength vernacular novel Guilian meng 歸蓮夢 (Returning to the Lotus Dream, hereafter Lotus Dream ), attributed to Su'an zhuren 蘇庵主人 (Master of Su'an, hereafter Su'an), features a triple hybrid narrative: a hagiographic account of the female...

... subject of the state, and a goddess. This study examines the relationships among multiple types of authorship: literati authorship of chuanqi dramas, collective authorship of folk opera, and male actors performing (authoring) female characters onstage. The study demonstrates that, as folk opera shifted...

... Typologies takes a deep dive into the sources surrounding the history of female rule during the early Tang dynasty. As Rebecca Doran's layered discussion of these records makes clear, even though the Tang dynasty is recognized as one of the more tolerant eras for female autonomy in Chinese history...

...Figure 5. Female nude, from Dan Duyu, Duyu baimeitu xuji 杜宇百美圖續集 (A Sequel to Duyu's Hundred Beauties Album). Shanghai: Shanghai xinmin tushuguan, 1920, 22. ...

... consistency makes it possible to read the body of extant female-authored tanci as an affective archive of a counterpublic made up of the elite cloistered women ( guixiu 閨秀) who composed and consumed tanci . This approach draws on the work of Ann Cvetkovich, who has compiled an archive of lesbian texts...

... of women's poetic culture in the Ming and Qing periods. 10 A year later, a pioneering study of the phenomenon of women's literary culture and the subject of women's writing in late imperial China appeared in the journal Late Imperial China . In “The Epistolary World of Female Talent in Seventeenth...