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

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Jo-shui Chen is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at National Taiwan University, with a joint appointment as research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. He specializes in medieval Chinese history and intellectual history of China with a comparative approach, and is the author of four books and many articles. Patricia Ebrey is Professor of History at the University of Washington. Her work on kinship and gender includes The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (1993) and Women and the Family in Chinese History (2002). For the past decade much of her research has been on visual dimensions of Chinese history and the court of the Song emperor Huizong. These interests led both to Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics (co-edited, 2006) and to Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (2008). Louise Edwards is Professor of Modern China Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Her most recent book is Gender, Politics and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in China (2008). Other publications include Men and Women in Qing China (1994, reprinted 2001), Censored by Confucius (1996, with Kam Louie), Celebrity in China (2010, with Elaine Jeffreys) and a series of edited volumes with Mina Roces including Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism (2010), The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas (2007), Women’s Suffrage in Asia (2004), and Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalization (2000). Grace S. Fong is Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University, and Montreal, Canada. She has published widely on classical Chinese poetry and women’s writings in late imperial China. She is project editor of the online digital archive Ming Qing Women’s Writings (http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing, launched in 2005). Her most recent book is Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (2008). She is also co-editor of Different 586 | Overt and Covert Treasures Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China (2008), and The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing (2010). Clara Wing-chung Ho is Professor of History at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the editor of several volumes including Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644–1911 (1998; paperback edition 1999; Chinese edition 2010); and Windows on the Chinese World: Reflections by Five Historians (2009). Her books in Chinese include Nüxing yu lishi: Zhongguo chuantong guannian xintan (1993); Zhongguo gudai de yu’er (1997), and De cai se quan: Lun Zhongguo gudai nüxing (1998). Another edited volume, Xingbie shiye zhong de Zhongguo lishi xinmao, is forthcoming. Hu Ying is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Tales of Translation: Composing the New Woman in China, 1898–1918 (2000) and numerous essays on late Qing literature, feminist theory and translation studies. She co-edited with Joan Judge Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History published by UC Press (2011). She is currently completing a book manuscript on Qiu Jin (1875–1907) and her sworn sisters, a linked biography of three women, respectively revolutionary, calligrapher, and educator. Joan Judge is Professor in the Departments of History and Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is the author of The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (2008), Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (1996), and co-editor with Hu Ying of Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History (2011). Anne Behnke Kinney is Professor of Chinese and Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is also the director of Traditions of Exemplary Women, a digital resource for the study of women in early China. Her translation of Liu Xiang’s Lienü zhuan (Categorized Biographies of Women) will be published by Columbia University Press in 2013. Her previous publications include Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China (2004) and Chinese Views of Childhood (1995). Dorothy Ko, a native of Hong Kong, teaches the history of Ming-Qing China at Barnard College, Columbia University. Most recently, she has authored Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (2005). [3...