...–10), which celebrate a winter snowfall as auspicious, as somehow parallel to Wu Zetian's celebration of the unseasonable yin snowfall. Despite the close attention to constructions of gender and the deployment of yin-yang symbolism in Transgressive Typologies , the discussion of both is weakened...

... 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...

... marked the rediscovery and elucidation of the contents and shifts in women's education in scholar-official families and the debates on the nature and suitability of women's learning in the Ming and Qing. Robertson delved into women's representations of their gendered subjectivities and their literary...

...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...

..., she was able to rejoice again by being able to hold onto the words produced in the dream and beyond. To Qian Xi, her home is rediscovered through writing, and writing preserves the spirit of home. Qian Xi's life was full of gender frustration and family tragedies, both of which became important...

... increasingly use gender as a category of analysis to understand the accomplishments of women artists and patrons as well as representations of female figures. This article analyzes Yutai huashi 's gendered subjects and discussions of gender roles as a means of examining both the contributions of women authors...

... and gender studies, examining why specific arguments on women and language, genres studied, and theoretical underpinnings did not hold significant relevance to the study of similar issues when applied to women's writing in pre-twentieth-century China. Yet certain concepts were highly fruitful in critical...

... of dehumanization, typically understood as the denial of one's intrinsic human traits by other people. In the late Qing context, dehumanization can occur when an individual is perceived as deviating from the path of self-cultivation, or as inept at or resistant to fulfilling prescribed social and gender roles...

... of communication and gender studies. These studies are valuable for us to understand Yuan's poetic criticism but at the same time have left room for a further investigation of Yuan's writing process from a sociological perspective, a question that we cannot avoid in discussing the work. If we do not understand how...

...” ( guiyuan 閨怨) continues to dominate the new-style hundred beauties albums under fashionable appearances. The author aims to shed light not only on the technical construction, through words and images, of gendered emotions but also on the perspective and historical milieu of the creators. The hundred...

...Jessica Dvorak Moyer Abstract During the first half century of the Qing dynasty, Manchu emperors commissioned massive publication projects on the Chinese classics. In early Qing interpretations of classics on the family, negotiations between Manchu and Han family and gender norms furthered...

...: the pleasure quarter and the inner chamber. Yang Wan's identity transformation and her strategic exploration of the gendered spaces along with their diverse symbolic codes contribute to our knowledge of the social, textual, and cultural mobility of late imperial China. [email protected]...

... a vision of explicitly ungendered artistic perfection resembling aspects of the androgynous ideal associated with the culture of the Ming-Qing transition. Yet she was also poignantly aware that she was still embedded in relationships that pulled her back into family obligation, gendered hierarchy...

... by women that provides insights into how elite women mentally negotiated the social and ideological expectations that informed their lives. In addition to looking at how women authors rewrote the conventions associated with scholar-beauty romances, the chastity cult, and the gendered symbols associated...

... and painters participated in the visual culture of late imperial China and negotiated gendered difference in their aesthetic vision and artistic production. gender ekphrasis meirenhua gaze subjectivity In the discourse of art connoisseurship in Ming China, women were categorically excluded...

... of this eminent pair of cultural figures precisely a year before the fall of the Ming dynasty. It also reflects upon a complex gender dimension in the expression of reclusion entangled with the trauma of dynastic transition. This is revealed, in part, by two additions to the scroll: a small landscape painting...

... BINBIN YANG is an associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Hong Kong, and the author of Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories (2016). Her research focuses on women and gender in late imperial China. She is also interested in engaging in broader...

... readers may have read or interpreted her poems. This essay thus highlights the discursive complexity and kinship and social networks underlying the production and interpretation of life writing in late imperial China. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 life history gender poetry...

...Paola Zamperini Xiaorong Li . The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The “Fragrant and Bedazzling” Movement (1600–1930) . New York : Cambria University Press , 2019 . 344 pp. ISBN 9781604979527 (hardcover). I cannot deny that at times, as a scholar of gender...

... mainly active in composing classical Chinese poetry. In spite of differences across historical moments and individual authors, these women writers were often identified as guixiu 閨秀 (cultivated gentlewomen from the inner chambers), a term indicating not only their gender but also their proper social...