Different Worlds of Discourse

Nanxiu Qian, Ph.D. (1994) in Literature, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Rice University. She has published on Classical Chinese literature and women and gender studies, including Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-shuo hsin-yü and Its Legacy (Hawai'i, 2001).Grace S. Fong, Ph.D. (1984) in Literature, University of British Columbia, is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at McGill University, Canada. She has published widely on Classical Chinese poetry and poetics and women's writing. Her most recent book is Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (Hawai'i, 2008).Richard J. Smith, Ph.D. (1973) in History, University of California, Davis, is Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of 12 books, the most recent of which is Fathoming the Cosmos and Managing the World (UVA Press, 2008).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction: Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China - Nanxiu Qian, Grace S. Fong, and Richard J. SmithPART ONETRANSFORMATIONS OF GENDER ROLES1. Wang Zhaoyuan (1763–1851) and the Erasure of “Talented Women” by Liang Qichao - Harriet T. Zurndorfer2. “Tossing the Brush”? Wu Zhiying (1868–1934) and the Uses of Calligraphy - Hu Ying3. Reconfiguring Time, Space, and Subjectivity:Lü Bicheng’s Travel Writings on Mount Lu - Grace S. Fong4. From “Cainü” to “Nü Jiaoxi”: Female Normal Schools and the Transformation of Women’s Education in the Late Qing Period, 1895–1911 -Xiaoping CongPART TWOTRANSFORMATIONS OF GENRES5. Mediated Imaginings: Biographies of Western Women and Their Japanese Sources in Late Qing China - Joan Judge6. Female Assassins, Civilization, and Technology in Late Qing Literature and Culture - Jing Tsu7. Patriotism Versus Love: The Central Dilemma of Zhan Kai’s Novel Bihai zhu - Ellen WidmerPART THREETHE PRODUCTION OF GENDER AND GENRES IN NEW PRINT MEDIA8. Women in Shenbaoguan Publications, 1872–90 - Rudolf G. Wagner9. The Mother Nü xuebao versus the Daughter Nü xuebao: Generational Differences between 1898 and 1902 Women Reformers - Nanxiu Qian10. Tianyi bao and He Zhen’s Views on “Women’sRevolution” - Xia Xiaohong,Translated by Hu Ying11. Male Gaze/Female Students: Late Qing Education for Women as Portrayed in Beijing Pictorials, 1902–08 - Chen Pingyuan, Translated by Anne S. Chao12. The Construction of Gender and Genre in the 1910s New Media: Evidence from The Ladies’ Journal - Siao-chen HuSuggested Bibliography About the Contributors Index