Research has shown that the cainü才女(talented women)or guixiu闺秀(gentry women)tradition in late imperial China boosted a large amount of female writers and readers in the literary realm,debunking the previously...Research has shown that the cainü才女(talented women)or guixiu闺秀(gentry women)tradition in late imperial China boosted a large amount of female writers and readers in the literary realm,debunking the previously male-centered belief of a male-only literature in late imperial China.1 While poetry by cainügained scholarly attention much earlier due to its orthodox format,female-authored tanci弹词fiction as the most popular literary genre among women in late imperial China has also recently started to gain scholarly attention.展开更多
文摘Research has shown that the cainü才女(talented women)or guixiu闺秀(gentry women)tradition in late imperial China boosted a large amount of female writers and readers in the literary realm,debunking the previously male-centered belief of a male-only literature in late imperial China.1 While poetry by cainügained scholarly attention much earlier due to its orthodox format,female-authored tanci弹词fiction as the most popular literary genre among women in late imperial China has also recently started to gain scholarly attention.
