"Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarter

Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we app

This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in trad

To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian tex

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the his