# List of Chinese women writers

The following is a list of Chinese women writers.

## B

* Consort Ban (c.48–c.6 BCE) scholar and poet
* Ban Zhao (45–c. 116) historian, polymath, author of Lessons for Women, one of the Four Books for Women
* Bao Junhui (fl. late 8th Century) poet
* Bao Linghui (fl. c.464) poet
* Anni Baobei (born 1974) novelist
* Bing Xin (1900–1999) fiction and children's writer
* Bu Feiyan (born 1981) novelist

## C

* Cai Yan (c.178–after 206) poet
* Cai Wan (1695-1755) poet
* Cao Exiu (13th Century) Zaju actress and poet
* Cao Miaoqing (14th Century) poet, calligrapher, musician
* Chai Jingyi (17th Century) head of the Banana Garden Poets
* Chang Ch'ung-ho (1914–2015) poet
* Eileen Chang (1920–1995) novelist, essayist and screenwriter
* Chen Jingrong (1917–1989) poet
* Chen Danyan (born 1958) biographer
* Chen Duansheng (1751-1796) Tanci author
* Chen Xiaocui (1902–1967), poet, novelist, painter
* Chen Xiefen (1883-1923) magazine editor
* Chen Xuezhao (1906–1991) writer and commentator
* Chen Yuanyuan (17th Century) Geji
* Cheng Changwen (Tang Dynasty) poet and calligrapher
* Angelica Cheung (born 1966) fashion writer

## D

* Dai Houying (1938–1996) novelist
* Ding Ling (1904–1986) fiction writer
* Dong Xiaowan (1624-1651) Geji poet
* Duan Shuqing (c.1510–c.1600) poet

## F

* Fang Fang (born 1955) poet and novelist
* Fang Weiyi (1585-1668) poet and historian of women writers
* Feng Yuanjun (1900–1974) scholar
* Fu Shanxiang (1833–1864) scholar
* Fu Tianlin (born 1946) poet

## G

* Gao Yu (born 1944) journalist
* Gu Hengbo (1619-1664) Gējì poet
* Gu Taiqing (1799–c.1877) poet
* Guan Daosheng (1262–1319) poet
* Guo Ai (died 1428) consort and poet

## H

* Han Lanying (died 493) scholar and writer
* Hao Jingfang (born 1984) novelist
* He Shuangqing (1715-c.1737) lyric poet
* Hong Ying (born 1962) novelist and poet
* Ganggang Hu Guidice (born 1984) writer and artist
* Hü King Eng (1865-1929) physician
* Hu Lanqi (1901–1994) writer and military leader
* Huang Chonggu (885-924) administrator, poet
* Huang E (1498–1569) poet
* Madame Huarui (c.940–976) poet

## J

* Jiang Biwei (1899–1978) memoirist
* Jiang Hui (1839-after 1880) astronomer
* Jin Yi (1770-1794) poet

## K

* Ke Yan (1929–2011) playwright, novelist and poet
* Kin Yamei (1864-1935) physician

## L

* Li Pingxiang (late 19th-early 20th Century) Gējì poet
* Li Qingzhao (1084–c.1151) writer and poet
* Li Ye (died 784) poet
* Liang Desheng (1771–1847) poet and Tanci author
* Lin Huiyin (1904–1955) architectural historian
* Lin Zongsu (1878–1944) women's rights essayist
* Ling Shuhua (1900–1990) modernist writer and painter
* Lin Xue (Ming Dynasty) landscape painter, poet, calligrapher
* Lin Yining (1655-c.1730) one of the original Banana Garden Poets
* Liu Qingyun (c.1841-c.1900) playwright
* Liu Rushi (1618–1664) singer, poet and writer
* Liu Ying (born 1974) novelist
* Lü Bicheng (1883–1943) poet and commentator
* Luo Luo (born 1982) novelist
* Lüqiu Luwei (born 1969) journalist

## M

* Ma Shouzhen (c.1548-1604) Geji poet and painter, also known as Ma Xianglan
* Mian Mian (born 1970) fiction writer
* Duchess Mu of Xu (fl. 7th Century BCE) poet

## N

* Niu Yingzhen (8th Century) poet

## P

* Lynn Pan (born 1945) travel writer

## Q

* Qiu Jin (1875–1907) poet, essayist and political writer

## R

* Rao Xueman (born 1972) fiction writer, essayist and blogger
* Ru Zhijuan (1925–1998) fiction writer

## S

* Shangguan Wan'er (c.664–710) poet and writer
* Shen Qing (living) fashion writer
* Shen Rong (born 1936) fiction writer and essayist
* Shen Shanbao (1808–1862) poet and writer
* Shu Ting (born 1952) poet
* Song Mingqiong (died 1802) poet
* Song Ruolun (fl. 8th Century) one of the five Song Sisters
* Song Ruoshen (died 820) primary author of Analects for Women, one of the Four Books for Women
* Song Ruoxian (772-835) secretary and record keeper for Emperor Jingzong
* Song Ruoxun (fl. 8th Century) one of the five Song Sisters
* Song Ruozhao (761-828) poet, biographer, annotated her sister Ruoshen's Analects for Women
* Su Hui (4th Century) poet
* Su Qing (1914–1982) essayist
* Su Xiaoxiao (c.479 – c.501) poet
* Su Xuelin (1897–1999) author and scholar

## T

* Tian Yuan (born 1985) singer-songwriter and novelist
* Tie Ning (born 1957) novelist and short story writer

## W

* Wang Anyi (born 1954) fiction writer
* Wang Qinghui (1264–1288) poet
* Wang Wei (1597–1647) poet
* Wang Xufeng (born 1955) writer on tea and novelist
* Wang Yun (1749–1819) poet and playwright
* Yun Wang (born 1964) poet and cosmologist
* Woeser (born 1966) blogger, poet and essayist
* Wu Chuntao (born 1963) social writer
* Wu Zao (1799–1862) poet
* Wu Zetian (624=705) empress-regnant, poet and calligrapher
* Madame Wu (13th century) cookbook writer

## X

* Xi Xi (1937-2022) novelist and poet
* Xia Jia (born 1984) science fiction and fantasy writer
* Xiao Hong (1911–1942) fiction writer and essayist
* Xie Bingying (1906–2000) autobiographer
* Xie Daoyun (4th Century) poet and scholar
* Xin Fengxia (1927-1998) actress, author, artist
* Xinran (born 1958) non-fiction writer
* Empress Xu (1362–1407) author of Domestic Lessons, one of the Four Books for Women
* Xu Hui (627–650) poet
* Xu Kun (born 1965) postmodern fiction writer
* Xu Yuan (c.1560-1620) poet
* Xu Zihua (1873–1935) poet
* Xue Susu (c.1564–c.1650) poet
* Xue Tao (768–831) poet

## Y

* Yang Erche Namu (born 1966) social writer
* Yang Gang (1905–1957) journalist, novelist and translator
* Yang Hongying (born 1962) children's fiction writer
* Yang Jiang (1911–2016) playwright, author and translator
* Ting-Xing Ye (born 1952) author of young adult novels
* Ye Yingchun (born 1970) commentator
* Chia-ying Yeh (born 1924) poet and scholar
* Lizzie Yu Der Ling (1885–1944), writer of several memoirs
* Nellie Yu Roung Ling (1889–1973), author of a memoir and a novella
* Yu Xuanji (c.840–c.868) poet
* Yun Zhu (1771-1833) poet, painter, moralist

## Z

* Zeng Baosun (1893–1978) historian
* Zhai Yongming (born 1955) poet
* Zhang Haidi (born 1955) writer and translator
* Zhang Huaicun (born 1972) novelist, poet and children's writer
* Zhang Jie (1937–2022) fiction writer
* Zhang Kangkang (born 1950) fiction writer
* Lijia Zhang (born 1964) commentator and public speaker
* Zhang Ling (born 1957) fiction writer
* Zhang Xinxin (born 1953) biographer and fiction writer
* Zhang Yaotiao (fl. 9th Century) poet
* Zhang Yueran (born 1982) fiction writer
* Empress Zhangsun (601–636) essayist
* Zhao Luanluan (fl. mid-14th Century) poet
* Zhao Luorui (1912–1998) poet and translator
* Zheng Min (1920–2022) scholar and poet
* Zheng Yunduan (c.1327–1356) poet
* Yilin Zhong (living) fiction writer and poet
* Zhou Weihui (born 1973) novelist
* Zhu Lin (born 1949) novelist
* Zhu Shuzhen (c.1135–1180) poet
* Zhuo Wenjun (fl. 2nd Century BCE) poet
* Zong Pu (born 1928) writer and scholar
* Zuo Fen (c.255–300) poet