Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History

Contents

Contents Acknowledgements and Editor’s Notes Clara Wing-chung Ho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix An Investigation into the Sources for Women’s History in the Sibu: In Lieu of an Introduction Clara Wing-chung Ho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 How the History of Women in Early China Intersects with the History of Science in Early China Lisa Raphals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Mao Commentary to the Book of Odes as a Source for Women’s History Anne Behnke Kinney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Discourses on Female Bodily Aesthetics and Its Early Revelations in The Book of Songs Eva Kit Wah Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Social Status, Gender Division and Institutions: Sources Relating to Women in Chinese Standard Histories Yi Jo-lan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 vi | Contents Women in Portraits: An Overview of Epitaphs from Early and Medieval China Ping Yao. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Ishinpo and its Excerpts from Chanjing: A Japanese Medical Text as a Source for Chinese Women’s History Jen-der Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Illustrating Chinese Women’s History Patricia Ebrey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Gazetteers and the Talented Woman Ellen Widmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Women in Chinese Encyclopedias Harriet T. Zurndorfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Gendered Fictions and Chinese Women’s History Louise Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Romantic Recollections of Women as Sources of Women’s History Wai-yee Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 Auto/biographical Subjects: Ming-Qing Women’s Poetry Collections as Sources for Women’s Life Histories Grace S. Fong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Personal Writings on Female Relatives in the Qing Collected Works Weijing Lu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 Women’s Characters: Calligraphy as a Source for Women’s History Hu Ying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 Contents | vii A Kaleidoscope of Knowledge about Women: The Chinese Periodical Press, 1872–1918 Joan Judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Between Drawing and Writing: Prostitutes in the Dianshizhai Pictorial Hon-ming Yip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 The Stories of Urban Christian Women in Nineteenth-century South China: With Special Reference to Missionary-related Sources Wong Man Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 Epilogue Dorothy Ko, Angela Ki Che Leung, Jo-shui Chen & Robin D. S. Yates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571 A Selected Bibliography of Useful Works on the Methodologies of Chinese Women’s History Kar-kee Lo & Hoi-ling Lui. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579 About the Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585 Sources of Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 Index of Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 ...