Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China

Haihong Yang is assistant professor of Chinese in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Delaware.

• Chapter 1: “Weaving Looms in Hundreds of Rooms”: Women-Authored Criticism in Late Imperial ChinaChapter 2: The Female Recluse: The Trope of Withdrawal and Self-Representation in Poems by Two Late Ming/Early Qing Women WritersChapter 3: Playful Seriousness: Women’s “Teasingly Composed” PoemsChapter 4: “To Blaze One’s Own Path”: Allusion and Renovated Subjectivity in Women’s PoetryChapter 5: “New Wine in Old Bottles”: Classical Poems by Women Writers in the New Media at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Yang’s engaging and impressively researched book makes a significant contribution to the study of women’s literature of the late imperial period and will become an indispensable source for the study of imperial Chinese literature and history.