.... The city was a transregional literary center and a favored destination of sojourning poets and merchants, particularly those from Huizhou, creating opportunities for women to attain literary fame. Central to this discussion is a poetic language about sites and spaces that became current in Yangzhou during...

... connected women authors in “Yangzhou Revisited: Spatial Imaginaries and Women's Literature during the Qing.” Countering the popular assumption that Yangzhou lacked female writers, Yang's article not only uncovers the vibrancy of women's literary activities in Yangzhou but also places Yangzhou at the center...

... the “overlapping interaction” between print and manuscript by citing literati agency, with “the use of print as mediated by elite writers' literary, economic, and social desires” rather than as an “outcome of technological ascendency” (5), McLuhan rebukes the notion of “use” by mocking a gun rights scripted line...