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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