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EA 231

Women's Lives and Women's Literature

Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender:Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley
and Los Angeles, CA:University of California Press, 1997.

Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chambers:Women and Culture in Seventeenth Century
China. Stanford:Stanford University Press, 1994.

Mann, Susan. Precious Records:Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1997.

Ropp, Paul S. "The Seeds of Change:Reflections on the Condition of Women in the Early and
Mid Ch'ing."Signs:Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 2 no. 1(1976) pp. 5-
23.

"Symposium on Poetry and Women's Culture in Late Imperial China" in Late Imperial Chinavol.
13 no. 1 (June 1992.)

Widmer, Ellen and K'ang-i Sun Chang ed. Writing Women in Late Imperial China. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1997.

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Most of the books on this list can be found in the Colby College Library. Articles can be ordered through inter-library loan.




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