Women writers of traditional China
Subtitle: an anthology of poetry and criticism
By: edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy ; Charles Kwong, associate editor ; Anthony C. Yu and Yu-kung Kao, consulting editors
Contributors: Chang, Kang-i Sun, 1944-; Saussy, Haun, 1960-; Kwong, Charles Yim-tze, 1958-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 891
Subjects: Chinese poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Chinese poetry -- Women authors -- Translations into English; Women and literature -- China
Description: "This anthology of Chinese women's poetry in translation brings together representative selections from the work of some 130 poets from the Han dynasty to the early twentieth century.".

"These poets include empresses, imperial concubines, courtesans, grandmothers, recluses, Buddhist nuns, widows, painters, farm wives, revolutionaries, and adolescent girls thought to be incarnate immortals. Some women wrote out of isolation and despair, finding in words a mastery that otherwise eluded them. Others were recruited into poetry by family members, friends, or sympathetic male advocates.

Some dwelt on intimate family matters and cast their poems as addresses to husbands and sons at large in the wide world of men's affairs." "The primary purpose of this anthology is to put before the English-speaking reader evidence of the poetic talent that flourished, against all odds, among women in premodern China."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 851-869) and index