Rethinking Authorship and Agency

This special issue covers women and gender in the literature, culture, and history of late imperial China, specifically the authorship and agency of both women and men in the Ming and Qing periods. Contributors group the issue's articles under three thematic titles: the guixiu, the cultivated gentlewomen of the inner chambers and their relation to poetic culture; gendered voices in literary writing and how women authors work within the existing literati writing tradition; and the relationship between authorship and womanly virtues.

Contributors: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Maram Epstein, Grace S. Fong, Martin W. Huang, Xiaorong Li, Jessica Dvorak Moyer, Janet Theiss, Guojun Wang, Yuefan Wang, Ellen Widmer, Binbin Yang, Guo Yingde