The Early Qing

Susan Mann, Precious Records

Article reviews:

Ropp, Paul S. 1976. “Seeds of Change: Reflections on the Condition of Women in Early and Mid Ch’ing.” Signs 2:5-23.

Rowe, William T. 1992. “Women and the Family in Mid-Qing Social Thought: The Case of Ch’en Hung-mou,” Late Imperial China

Paderni, Paola. 1995. “I Thought I would Have Some Happy Days: Women Eloping in Eighteenth-Century China,” Late Imperial China 16.1:1-32.

Paderni, Paola. 1999. “Between Constraints and Opportunities: Widows, Witches, and Shrews in Eighteenth Century China.” In Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives, ed. Harriet Zurndorfer. Leiden: Brill.

Ropp, Paul. 1997. “Ambiguous Images of Courtesan Culture in Late Imperial China.” In Writing Women in Late Imperial China, ed. Ellen Widmer and Kang-I Sun Chang. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp. 17-45.

Handlin, Joanna F. 1975. “Lü K’un’s New Audience: The Influence of Women’s Literacy on Sixteenth-Century Thought.” In Wolf and Witke, Women in China.

Ellen Widmer, 1992. “Xiaoqing’s Literary Legacy and the Place of the Woman Writer in Late Imperial China.” Late Imperial China 13.1:111-55.

Carlitz, Katherine. 1994.  “Desire, Danger, and the Body:  Stories of Women’s Virtue in Late Ming China,” in Engendering China:  Women, Culture, and the State, ed. Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press. 

Cahill, James. 2006. “Paintings Done for Women in Ming-Qing China?” Nan Nü 8.1:1-54.

Book Reviews:

Ko, Dorothy. 1994.  Teachers of the Inner Chambers. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Ko, Dorothy. 2005. Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. Berkeley: University of California Press.

T’ien, Ju-k’ang. 1988. Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch’ing Times. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Ropp, Paul S. 2001. Banished Immortal: Searching for Shuangqing, China’s Peasant Woman Poet. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Widner, Ellen and Kang-I Sun Chang, eds. 1997. Writing Women in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Special Issue of Nan Nü 3.1 (2001) on Widow Suicide.

Idema, Wilt and Beata Grant. 2004. The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center.

Theiss, Janet M. 2004. Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press.