Introduction -- "Weaving looms in hundreds of rooms": women-authored criticism in late imperial China -- The female recluse: the trope of withdrawal and self-representation in poems by two late Ming/Early Qing women writers -- Playful seriousness: women's "teasingly composed" po…
This study examines women poets and their poetry in late imperial China. The author explores the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, places their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and analyzes how they asserted their own agency to nego…
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the pe…