The Song Dynasty

Inner Quarters,1-6, 61-81, 99-113, 131-51, 250-71

Book Reviews:

Bray, Francesca, Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late
Imperial China (1997)

Birge, Bettine. 2002 Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yuan China: 960-1368. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chung, Pricilla. 1981. Palace Women in the Northern Sung, 960-1126 (Monographies du T’oung Pao, 12). Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Cass, Victoria. 1999. Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming.

Article reviews:

Birge, Bettine. 1989. "Chu Hsi and Women's Education," in Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage, ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary and John W. Chaffee. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Elvin, Mark. 1984. "Female Virtue and the State in China." Past and Present 104:111-152.

Chaffee, John. 1991. "The Marriage of Sung Imperial Clanswomen," in Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, ed. Rubie S. Watson and Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Yang, Lien-sheng. 1960-61. "Female Rulers in Imperial China," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 23:47-61.

Deng, Xiaonan. 1999. “Women in Turfan during the Sixth to Eighth centuries: A look at their activities outside the home.” Journal of Asian Studies 58:85-103.

Leung, Angela Ki Che. 1999. “Women Practicing Medicine in Premodern China.” In Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives, ed. Harriet Zurndorfer. Leiden: Brill.

Chiu-Duke, Josephine. 2006. “Mothers and the Well-Being of the State in Tang China.” Nan Nü 8.1:55-114.

Bossler, Beverly. 2002. “Shifting Identities: Courtesans and Literati in Song China.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 62.1:5-37.

Yao, Ping. 2002. “The Status of Pleasure: Courtesan and Literati Connections in T’ang China, 618-907.” Journal of Women’s History 14.2:26-53.

Idema, Wilt L. 1999. “Male Fantasies and Female Realities: Chu Shu-chen and Chang Yu-niang and their Biographers.” In Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives, ed. Harriet Zurndorfer. Leiden: Brill.

Wu, Pei-yi. 2002. “Yang Miaozhen: A Woman Warrior in Thirteenth-Century China.” Nan Nü 4.2:137-69.