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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Grace S. Fong Abstract Feminism , feminist theory , feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the 1992 publication of the pioneering special issue of Late Imperial China that focused on “Poetry and Women's Culture in Late Imperial China.” Its four seminal articles were authored by social historians Susan Mann and Dorothy Ko and by literary scholars Maureen Robertson and Ellen Widmer. Mann and Ko...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Xiaorong Li Abstract Guixiu 閨秀 (cultivated gentlewomen of the inner chambers) and cainü 才女 (women of talent) arguably became authorly identities (referring to women writing in classical verse) as women's literary culture took shape in Ming-Qing China. However, the guixiu and cainü were gradually...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 221–243.
Published: 01 April 2023
...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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 169–194.
Published: 01 April 2023
... 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Binbin Yang Abstract Yangzhou was known for its “women” but not for women's literature. Underlying literary imaginations about the beautiful women of Yangzhou were salt wealth and a commerce of women serving the wealthy during the late imperial period. The notoriety of this commerce seemed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 195–220.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jessica Dvorak Moyer Abstract This article reads exemplary biographies of chaste widows and women who committed suicide to preserve their chastity in the 1656 Yuding Nei ze yanyi 御定内則衍義 (Imperially Commissioned Expanded Meaning of the “Inner Standards”) by Fu Yijian 傅以漸 (1609–1665, jinshi 1646...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 65–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... features an array of paratextual elements: preface; illustrations with matching poems by prominent seventeenth-century literati figures; a poetry collection by Chen Susu 陳素素, a Yangzhou courtesan cast as the heroine of the play; and an appendix with women writers' poems commenting on Susu's poetry...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 11–29.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Ellen Widmer Abstract Mao Qiling 毛奇齡 (1623–1713) was a celebrated poet, scholar, and official whose life bridged the transition from Ming to Qing. A lesser-known aspect of his life was his interest in and work with women writers, especially the group associated with Shang Jinglan 商景蘭 (1605–1680...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
...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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Wenjia Liu Abstract This article looks at two stereotypes of women—the virtuous wife and the shrew—embodied in the mid-Qing tanci , Feng shuangfei , by Cheng Huiying. Zhang Feixiang is a virtuous and generous wife, the perfect match for her orthodox husband, Lingyun. Yet, in a new twist, Feng...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 30–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Yuefan Wang Abstract The late Ming (16th–17th cent.) witnessed the newfound popularity of garden writing. This article questions how gentry women negotiated this traditionally male-dominant genre and even employed it to respond to the dynastic change. By analyzing the writings of a family...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., the Bao men and women overcame a variety of hardships and obstacles. This investigation of the Baos' responses to challenging situations aims to further our understanding of the multiple meanings of and ways to express filial devotion in the Northern Song. Miss Cui's biographers identified her second...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Xiaorong Li Abstract The “hundred beauties” ( baimei 百美) genre, begun in the late Ming and established during the Qing, conventionally depicted one hundred “beautiful women” ( meiren 美人), selected from Chinese history through woodblock print portraits, biographies, and poems. During...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2014) 1 (1-2): 125–154.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Grace S. Fong Abstract This study examines the construction of women's life histories in literary collections through the exemplary case of Ling Zhiyuan 凌祉媛 and her poetry collection, Cuiluoge shici gao 翠螺閣詩詞稿 (Drafts of Poems and Song Lyrics from the Green Snail Shell Loft). Published in 1854...
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 18. “Reminiscing on a Ship” ( Zhouzhong yijiu 舟中憶舊), from Zhao Ousheng and Wu Yugong, Zitai baiyang: Meiren huodong xiezhen 姿態百樣:美人活動寫真 (The Hundred Postures and Manners: Portraits of the Activities of Beautiful Women). Shanghai: Shijie shuju, 1922, 1:1b–2a. More
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (2): 371–398.
Published: 01 November 2021
... times in Chinese. Huang and Qu, Quanguo manwen tushu ziliao lianhe mulu ; Zhongguo guji zongmu . 21. Starting in 1653, consorts for the Aisin Gioro were selected through the xiunü 秀女 (beautiful women) draft for the daughters of banner officials, and the Shunzhi emperor denied keeping...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 294–296.
Published: 01 April 2023
... 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 November 2022
... an allegorical reading of Yang Wan's writings as “footnotes” to his own life trajectory. He further interpreted Yang Wan's poetic writings within his framework of time and ambition. Women do not have time, and they take men's time as time. Thus, [men and women] share prominence and obscurity, as well...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and examined, those perceptions by socially elite persons of contemporaries who did not have a classical education contain elements we might expect as well as those that may surprise us. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The men in both stories appear to be completely devoted to the women...