Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-501) and index.
Contents:
Ming loyalism and the woman's voice in ficiton after Hong lou meng / Ellen Widmer. Late Ming courtesan: invention of a cultural ideal / Wai-yee Li -- Written word and the bound foot: a history of the courtesan's aura / Dorothy Ko -- Desire and writing in the late Ming play Parrot island / Katherine Carlitz -- Women in Feng Menglong's Mountain songs / Yasushi Oki -- Ming and Qing anthologies of women's poetry and their selection strategies / Kang-i Sun Chang -- Changing the subject: gender and self-inscription in authors' prefaces and Shi poetry / Maureen Robertson -- Writing her way out of trouble: Li Yuying in history and fiction / Ann Waltner -- Embodying the disembodied: representations of ghosts and the feminine / Judith T. Zeitlin -- De/constructing a feminine ideal in the eighteenth century: Random records of West-Green and the Story of Shuangqing / Grace S. Fong -- Women's writing before and within the Hong lou meng / Haun Saussy -- Beyond stereotypes: the twelve beauties in Qing court art and the Dream of the red chamber / Wu Hung -- Ming loyalism and the woman's voice in ficiton after Hong lou meng / Ellen Widmer.
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