The turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition, often portrayed in apocalyptic images of destruction,
produced an impressive spate of writings by women that challenged gender boundaries …

Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing
periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in …

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that
reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant …

Women's writing is an untapped resource for understanding the impact of nineteenth-century
crises on the consciousness of China's elite. As recent studies have emphasized, women's …

As Kan-I Sun Chang points out,“many Chinese scholars' stubborn adherence to a rigid
scheme of historical evolution” hinders them from paying attention to Ming and Qing poetry …

The late Ming courtesan is often presented as the epitome of elite culture and sometimes
credited with a significant role in the public realm and, more specifically, in the cataclysmic …

The 1898 Nü xuebao–Chinese Girl's Progress initiated Chinese women's journalism and
was followed by the 1902–1903 Xuchu nübao/Nü xuebao (Continued publication of …

Revolution, foreign occupation, and political, cultural, and economic upheavals defined mid-
twentieth-century Chinese society. This new anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first …

Ming Qing Women's Writings (MQWW) is an open-access, long-term, sustainable database
launched in 2005 by McGill University Library. 1 It is the only online digital archive of writings …

Funü zazhi 婦女雜誌 (The ladies' journal) was one of the most wellknown and widely
circulated periodicals in the Republican era (fig. 12.1). Its publication lasted for more than …