...Maram Epstein Rebecca Doran . Transgressive Typologies: Construction of Gender and Power in Early Tang China . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . ix , 260 pp. ISBN 9780674970588 (hardcover). Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Transgressive...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... is to expand her intellectual circle by sharing inspirational conversations and poems. This is especially significant considering the confining gender norms at the time. Qian Xi emphatically voiced her gender frustration in her writings. As confinement causes boredom and loneliness, she often expressed her...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...: 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. chenjiani.js@hotmail.com...

... 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. While few paintings of beauties could compare to the kind of opulent allure exemplified by Prince Yinzhen's 胤禛 (later the Yongzheng emperor, r. 1722...

..., particularly gendered images, women artists, women patrons, text-image relationships, and theories of representation. She has published articles about pictorial arts—painting, woodblock printmaking, photography, and video—from the Song dynasty (960–1279) through the contemporary era. She is the author of Song...

...” through her yan 言 (words). Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 life history gender poetry literary collection paratexts This study examines the rich forms and genres of writing that were used in producing the life history of the young woman poet Ling Zhiyuan 凌祉媛 in her...

...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...

...), a term indicating not only their gender but also their proper social place, as well as cultural cultivation. Located within the inner/domestic sphere, women were not supposed to participate in literary practices. However, from the late Ming on, thousands of women engaged in writing poetry, as evidenced...

... of Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (2008, 2016) and coeditor 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). MARTIN KERN, the Joanna...