"Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers’ participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong’s recovery of many of these poets, her able exegesis and elegant, analyti
Ming and Qing wrote poetry and prose about their own lives and the larger life beyond, and Fong (Chinese literature, McGill U.) gracefully analyzes the autobiographical poetry of Gan Lirou, the litera
This volume rewrites the history of Chinese women's literature by taking a truly inter-disciplinary (instead of merely multi-disciplinary) approach. In doing so, it ends up illuminating the centrality
Four articles and a substantial introduction reprinted from Nan Nü Men, Women, and Gender in China (2004) vol. 6, no. 1. explore topics along what is increasingly seen as artificial border between t
