Retrieving the past: Women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941

Women and Gender in China Studies

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 81-105

  Widmer, Ellen ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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References (82)

1. Shen Yixiu, ed., Yiren si (1636)
2. reprinted in Congshu jicheng xubian (Master compendium of writings, a sequel) (Shanghai: Shanghai shudian, 1994);
3. Wang Duanshu, ed., Mingyuan shiwei (Qingyin tang, 1667), in Beijing University Library and Grace S. Fong, ed., Ming Qing Women's Writings, http://digital.library. mcgill.ca/mingqing;
4. Yun Zhu, ed., Guochao guixiu zhengshi ji and Guochao guixiu zhengshi xuji (Sequel to the anthology of correct beginnings by women of this dynasty) (Hongxiang guan, 1831 and 1836)
5. both in Harvard-Yenching Library and Fong, ed., Ming Qing Women's Writings;
6. Shen Shanbao, Mingyuan shihua (1845), in Beijing University Library;
7. Shan Shili, ed., Guixiu zhengshi zaixu ji (Gulan Qian Family, 1911-1918)
8. in Harvard-Yenching Library and Fong, ed., Ming Qing Women's Writings;
9. Xian Yuqing, ed., Guangdong nüzi yiwen kao (Changsha: Shangwu yinshu guan, 1941).
10. See 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: Stanford University Press, 1997), 149-170.
11. For example, see "Inscribed at the End of Ye Xiaoluan's Fanshengxiang Collection" in Qian Shoupu, Xiufo lou shigao (Draft poems of Xiufo Tower) (Yushan Qian shi, 1869?), 2. 29a
12. in the Harvard-Yenching Library and Fong, ed., Ming Qing Women's Writings.
13. The one date I have been able to find for any of the poets listed is 1627, the death date of Weng Ru'an, on which see Hu Wenkai, Lidai funü zhuzuo kao (Research on women's writings through the ages) (Shanghai: Guji chubanshe, 1985), 149.
14. Hu Wenkai, Lidai fun zhuzuo kao, 248-250.
15. Wang Youding's biographical preface to Wang Duanshu, ed., Mingyuan shiwei, gives the date of her birth.
16. However, a recent publication, Qingren shiwenji zongmu tiyao (General index of outstanding poems and prose of Qing writers), ed. Ke Yuchun (Beijing: Guji chubanshe, 2002), 59, mentions a poem by Cao Rong that appears to have been written in mourning for Wang Duanshu. Cao died in 1685.
17. Prefatory biography by Meng Chengshun to Wang Duanshu, ed., Mingyuan shiwei.
18. On Ding's help, see the preface to juan 25 in Wang Duanshu, ed., Mingyuan shiwei.
19. See also juan 41 and 42, which consist of Wang's own poems.
20. For correspondence between Wang and some women who wanted to publish with her, see Wang Qi, ed., Chidu xinyu (The latest word on letters) (Taipei: Guangwen reprint, 1663-68), 3. 24.
21. Wang Duanshu, ed., Mingyuan shiwei, fanli (general principles).
22. Wang Duanshu, ed., Mingyuan shiwei, 1. 2b.
23. Wang Duanshu, ed., Mingyuan shiwei, preface to juan 32, 32.1a-1b.
24. For a full study of Yun Zhu, see Susan Mann, Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).
25. See Pan Suxin's preface to Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi ji.
26. See Linqing, Hongxue yinyuan tuji (Illustrated records of the tracks of destiny) (Beijing: Beijing guji chuban she, 1984), vol. 2
27. See Yun Zhu's preface to Zhengshi ji.
28. Linqing, Hongxue yinyuan tuji, vol. 2, shang, "Zaizhi shixuan. "
29. See Zong Mei's colophon to Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi xuji.
30. Linqing, Hongxue yinyuan tuji, vol 2, shang, "Zaizhi shixuan. "
31. See Yun Zhu, preface to Zhengshi ji.
32. Yun Zhu, "Liyan", 4a-b, in Zhengshi ji.
33. For more on Tiebao, see Arthur Hummel, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1943; repr., Taipei: Chengwen reprints, 1967), 717-718.
34. Tiebao's influence on Yun Zhu is particularly interesting. It is evident in her introductory comments, where she cites two of his works, Xichao yasong ji (Collected odes of the current dynasty)
35. and Baishan shijie (Introduction to poems of Baishan).
36. See Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi ji, "Liyan", 2b and 5b, He comes up elsewhere in her work as the husband of the woman writer Yingchuan.
37. See Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi ji, 14. 1a.
38. See Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi ji, 20. 3a.
39. See for example the discussion of Fang Fangpei, Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi ji, 11. 1.
40. Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi ji, "Buyi", 24a-b.
41. See Zong Mei's colophon to Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi xuji.
42. Linqing, Hongxue yinyuan tuji, vol. 2, shang, "Zaizhi shixuan. "
43. For more on Shen's teaching, see Ellen Widmer, The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center Publications, 2006), 157.
44. For more on Shen, see Grace S. Fong, "Writing Self and Writing Lives: Shen Shanbao's Gendered Auto/Biographical Practices", Nan Nü 2. 2(2000):259-303.
45. See Wang Qi, ed., Chidu xinyu, 24. 9a.
46. Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua, 4. 6-7.
47. Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua, 20. 8b-10a.
48. Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua, 1. 2a.
49. See Widmer, The Beauty and the Book, 199-200.
50. See for example Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua, 2. 9b-10a.
51. I am intrigued to learn that Beijing resident Pan Suxin acquired a copy of Shen's poems even before she reached that city (Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua, 7. 4b).
52. See Shen's preface to Mingyuan shihua
53. quoted in Hu Wenkai, Lidai funü zhuzuo kao, 367.
54. See Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua, 2. 23b.
55. See Widmer, The Beauty and the Book, 181-216.
56. Preface to Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua
57. quoted in Hu Wenkai, Lidai funü zhuzuo kao, 367.
58. Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua, 7. 22a.
59. Her travels are discussed in Shen Shanbao, ed., Mingyuan shihua, 7. 17a
60. and Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi ji, 18. 1a-3b.
61. Lidai funü zhuzuo kao, 3.
62. See also Shum Chun, "The Chinese Rare Books: An Overview", in Treasures of the Yenching, the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Catalogue of the Harvard-Yenching Library (Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Library, 2003), 22, which mentions both women.
63. Shan Shili, ed, Guimao lüxing ji (Changsha: Hunan renmin chubanshe, 1981).
64. In Congshu jicheng xubian (Shanghai: Shanghai shudian, 1994).
65. Shan Shili, ed, Guixiu zhengshi zaixu ji, 2. 4a.
66. See Hummel, Eminent Chinese, 231.
67. See Shan Shili, ed, Shouzi shi shigao (Draft poems of Shouzi Chamber) (Changsha: Hunan renmin chuban she, 1986).
68. Shan Shili, ed, Guimao lüxing ji, 61.
69. Shi Shuyi, ed., Qingdai guige shiren zhenglüe (Shanghai: Shangwu yinshu guan, 1922).
70. Hu Wenkai's Lidai funü zhuzuo kao likewise has a separate section for Manchus and other "others", such as nuns.
71. For this teacher, see Shan Shili, ed., Guixiu zhengshi zaixu ji, 4. 58b.
72. I take the term from Dorothy Ko, Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).
73. On Pan Suxin, see Ann Waltner, "Pan Suxin", in Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, ed. Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A. D. Stefanowska (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1998), 166-169, and the discussion above.
74. Shan Shili, ed, Guixiu zhengshi zaixu ji, 3. 17a.
75. See Huang Foyi, preface to Xian Yuqing, ed., Guangdong nüzi yiwen kao.
76. For example, Guangdong wenxian congtan (General discussion of literary contributions of Guangdong) (Hong Kong: Zhonghua shuju, 1965)
77. and Guangdong congtie xulu (Annotated record of prefaces to calligraphic works from Guangdong) (n. p.: Guangdong wenxianguan, 1949).
78. See Xian Yuqing's postface to Guangdong nüzi yiwen kao, 3.
79. Xian Yuqing's postface to Guangdong nüzi yiwen kao, 3.
80. Endymion Wilkinson, Chinese History: A Manual (Cambridge: Harvard Asia Center, 1998), 156, talks about the explosion of local histories during the Qing.
81. On Ruan Yuan, see Hummel, Eminent Chinese, 309-405.
82. Yun Zhu, ed., Zhengshi ji, 6. 13b.