Volume 10 • Issue 1 • April 2023
Special Issue Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China
Guest Editors Grace S. Fong and Guojun Wang

Table of Contents
Introduction
GRACE S. FONG and GUOJUN WANG
Guixiu: Changes through Time and Space
Beyond the Inner Chambers: Xu Zhaohua and Her Teacher Mao Qiling
ELLEN WIDMER
Garden, Gender, and Memory: Shang Jinglan and Her Writings in the Ming-Qing Transition
YUEFAN WANG
Yangzhou Revisited: Spatial Imaginaries and Women’s Literature during the Qing
BINBIN YANG
Where Have All the Guixiu Gone?: Chinese “Women of Talent” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
XIAORONG LI
Transcendence and Transgression
“She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions”: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century
JANET THEISS
From Convention to Subversion: Case Studies on the Female Gaze in Premodern China
GRACE S. FONG
Zaisheng yuan and the Writing of Women’s Culture
MARAM EPSTEIN
Negotiating Virtues
Agency and Strategy: Chastity Exemplars in an Early Qing Anthology
JESSICA DVORAK MOYER
Virtue and Women’s Authorship in Chinese Art History: A Study of Yutai huashi (History of Painting from Jade Terrace)
LARA C. W. BLANCHARD
A Son’s Obligations: Promoting and Circulating Motherly Exemplariness in Late Imperial China
MARTIN W. HUANG
Gender and Violence: The Multivalent Voices of a Cannibalized Concubine in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
GUOJUN WANG and GUO YINGDE
Contributors