Order Description

You can write your paper on any of the topics related to the readings and issues that we have covered so far in class.

Readings:
“Different Voices: Liu Lingxian.” The Red Brush. 146-53.
Robertson, Maureen. “Voicing the Feminine: Constructions of the Gendered Subject in Lyric Poetry by Women of Medieval and Late Imperial China.” Late Imperial China 13.1 (1992): 63-110. [B]
Fong, Grace S. “Engendering the Lyric: Her Image and Voice in Song.” Voices of the Song Lyric in China. Ed. Pauline Yu. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1994. 107-44. [B]

Readings:
“The Poet of a Single Line: Xie Daoyun.” The Red Brush. 136-44.
Lee, Lily Xiao Hong. “Xie Daoyun: The Style of a Woman Mingshi.” The Virtue of Yin: Studies on Chinese Women. Broadway, Australia: Wild Peony, 1994. 25-46. [B]
Mann, Susan. “Writing.” Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 76-120. [B]