The many guises of Xiaoluan: The legacy of a girl poet in late imperial China

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Gerritsen, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 43249170458     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2005.0019     Document Type: Article

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1. See Ellen Widmer, "The Epistolary World of Female Talent in Seventeenth-Century China," Late Imperial China 10, no. 2 (1989): 1-43;
2. Dorothy Ko, Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994);
3. Susan Mann, Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997);
4. and Kang-i Sun Chang, "Ming and Qing Anthologies of Women's Poetry and Their Selection Strategies," in Writing Women in Late Imperial China, ed. Ellen Widmer and Kang-i Sun Chang (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997), 147-70.
5. and Wilt Idema and Beata Grant, The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004).
6. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven, CT: 1979; repr., Yale Nota Bene Books, 2000), 16-20.
7. The poem is a quatrain with five characters per line. For more information on poetic styles and conventions, see Wilt Idema and Lloyd Haft, Guide to Chinese Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
8. For biographical details on Xiaoluan, see Ye Dehui, "Account of her life," in Shuxiangge yilu, ed. Ye Dehui (1917; reprint, Shanghai: Congshu jicheng xubian, 1998), 91-95.
9. Ye Xiaoluan, "The full body," Fanshengxiang, 351,
10. translated by Ko, Teachers of the Inner Chambers, 168.
11. Qn Ye Shaoyuan, see Dictionary of Ming Biography, ed. L. Carrington Goodrich and Chaoying Fang (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976),
12. s.v. "Ye Shaoyuan." On Shen Yixiu, see Ko, Teachers of the Inner Chambers, 187-218.
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14. and Timothy Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).
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16. and Idema, De Onthoofde Feministe, 8.
17. For a comprehensive listing of writings by women, see Hu Wenkai, Lidai funü zhuzuokao (Shanghai: Guji chubanshe, 1985).
18. On Wang Duanshu's anthology of women poets, see Chang, "Ming and Qing Anthologies," 157-59.
19. On Wang Duan, see Ellen Widmer, "Ming Loyalism and the Woman's Voice in Fiction after Hong lou meng," in Writing Women in Late Imperial China, 366-96.
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24. For a listing of Qing intellectuals supportive of women's writings, see Ho, "Encouragement from the Opposite Gender," 310.
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26. Widmer, "The Epistolary World";
27. and Mann, Precious Records.
28. Martin Huang, Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).
29. Shen Zibing, "Preface," in Wumengtangji, 299-300.
30. Fanshengxiang, 310.
31. For a close analysis of Ye Shaoyuan's account of these séances, see Judith T. Zeitlin, "Spirit Writing and Performance in the Work of You Tong (1618-1704)," T'oung Pao 84 (1998): 109.
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36. Zou, "Biography of a female immortal," 1088.
37. For a biography of You Tong, see Hummel, Eminent Chinese, 935-36.
38. See also Zeitlin, "Spirit Writing."
39. The reference to Xiaoluan's collection occurs in You Tong's preface to Linxia cixuan, see Hu, Funü zhuzuo kao, 896.
40. James Polachek, The Inner Opium War (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, 1992), 99.
41. Widmer, "Ming Loyalty," 367;
42. Widmer, "Xiaoqing's Literary Legacy," 40;
43. See also Anne Gerritsen, "Searching for Gentility: The Nineteenth-Century Fashion for the Late Ming," in Perceptions of Gentility in Chinese Literature and History, ed. Daria Berg and Chloe Starr (forthcoming).
44. Ye Xiaowan, Yuanyang meng, in Wumengtangji, 387-401.
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46. Shuxiangge yilu, 111-18.
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48. Zhang Chengzong and Du Maizhi, Ye Dehui pingzhuan [Critical biography of Ye Dehui] (Changsha: Yuelu shushe, 1985), 109.
49. Ye Dehui, "Postface," in Shuxiangge yilu, 149.
50. Ye Dehui, "Postface," 149.