As scholars have become more aware of the limitations of “standard histories” and didactic
texts, epitaphs have increasingly been considered useful sources for studying women in …

Epitaph writing—a form of ancestor worship and obituary practice that reached its height in
the Tang dynasty—provides historians with rich insights into Tang women's lives. 1 Among …

This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women's history,
covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China's unification in 221 BCE. For …

Patricia Buckley Ebrey's The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in
the Sung Period and Dorothy Ko's Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in …

The present volume is the result of a Leiden University workshop on women in imperial
China by a group of international scholars. In recent years Chinese women and gender …

This first book-length study of gender relations in the Lower Yangzi region during the High
Qing era (c. 1683-1839) challenges enduring late-nineteenth-century perspectives that …

Traditionally scholars have valued “standard histories”(zhengshi 正史) as records of political
events in Chinese history, where the main actors were men. Although they are now more …

Calligraphy occupies a peculiar position in the lives of pre-modern Chinese women. On the
one hand, unlike sewing and embroidery, the practice of which constituted one of the four …

This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the
early medieval period of disunion, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in …

In recent years historians have turned their attention toward early women's biographies, and
the amount of research on these fascinating texts is rapidly increasing. It appears that …