Those are very moving. I've heard of 秋瑾 Qiu Jin, but not 徐自華 Xu Zihua. I just finished reading the Zhang family book by Susan Mann, which looks at late qing women literary culture it's nice to see the crossover with the early revolutionary period.
Ah, I really enjoyed Mann's latest - I read it right after it came out. I especially thought it would be a great book to teach with, as she does such a great job of explaining how she got from her sources to crafting a narrative - I'm not always sure what students think we historians do, but I think some of them would probably be aided by such a clear explanation! Have you read her Precious Records? Along with Ko's Teachers of the Inner Chambers, two of my favorites - Teachers was especially influential on me.
I have read those two, they were some of the books that first got me interested in Chinese history, along with Patricia Ebrey's Inner Quarters.
Thanks for the link, I've not come across that one yet. I'll have to order myself a copy. I stopped buying books just in English when I started to study classical as I wanted to have dual language or Chinese texts, but that looks lovely. It reminds me I need to finish plowing my way through my Red Brush anthology.
Well, once you hit the Ming/Qing periods in this book, you can head over to the Ming Qing Women's Writing digitization project (they have just about everyone you could think of and a lot you couldn't). I honestly have not yet found a particularly good anthology of women's poetry in Chinese - and the older ones are out of print.
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What anthology did you find these in?
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The anthology is Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy, eds., Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999). Actually, if you click on my women writers anthology tag, I've got a bunch of other stuff from the same anthology. Cost me a small fortune in Taiwan, but totally worth it - it's a fantastic resource, and has poetry ranging from the Han to the end of the Qing. The translations can be hit or miss in terms of reading as good POETRY (and not just as a ( ... )
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Thanks for the link, I've not come across that one yet. I'll have to order myself a copy. I stopped buying books just in English when I started to study classical as I wanted to have dual language or Chinese texts, but that looks lovely. It reminds me I need to finish plowing my way through my Red Brush anthology.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Brush-Writing-Imperial-Monographs/dp/067401393X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216137821&sr=8-3
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