Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

List of Figures and Tables

pp.：  9 – 10

Note on Translations of Chinese Titles

pp.：  11 – 12

Acknowledgments

pp.：  13 – 14

Introduction

pp.：  15 – 30

Part I In the Domestic Realm

pp.：  31 – 32

Chapter One Writing and Illness: A Feminine Condition in Women's Poetry of the Ming and Qing

pp.：  33 – 62

Chapter Two Lamenting the Dead: Women's Performance of Grief in Late Imperial China

pp.：  63 – 92

Part II Larger Horizons: Editing and its Implications

pp.：  93 – 94

Chapter Three Retrieving the Past: Women Editors and Women's Poetry, 1636–1941

pp.：  95 – 120

Chapter Four The Unseen Hand: Contextualizing Luo Qilan and Her Anthologies

pp.：  121 – 154

Chapter Five From Private Life to Public Performances: The Constituted Memory and (Re)writings of the Early-Qing Woman Wu Zongai

pp.：  155 – 190

Part III Beyond Prescribed Roles

pp.：  191 – 192

Chapter Six Women Writers and Gender Boundaries During the Ming-Qing Transition

pp.：  193 – 228

Chapter Seven Chan Friends: Poetic Exchanges Between Gentry Women and Buddhist Nuns in Seventeenth-Century China

pp.：  229 – 262

Chapter Eight War, Violence, and the Metaphor of Blood in Tanci Narratives by Women Authors

pp.：  263 – 294

Part IV The Personal is Political: Responding to the Outside World

pp.：  295 – 296

Chapter Nine The Lady and the State: Women's Writing in Times of Trouble during the Nineteenth Century

pp.：  297 – 328

Chapter Ten Imagining History and the State: Fujian Guixiu (Genteel Ladies) at Home and on the Road

pp.：  329 – 352

Chapter Eleven Xue Shaohui and Her Poetic Chronicle of Late Qing Reforms

pp.：  353 – 386

Conclusion

pp.：  387 – 388

Literary Authorship by Late Imperial Governing-Class Chinese Women and the Emergence of a "Minor Literature"

pp.：  389 – 400

The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing and its Deliberations on a "Minor Literature"

pp.：  401 – 404

About the Contributors

pp.：  405 – 408

Bibliography

pp.：  409 – 428

Index

pp.：  429 – 445