Ambiguous images of courtesan culture in late imperial China / Paul S. Ropp
Late Ming courtesan: invention of a cultural ideal / Wai-yee Li
Written word and the bound foot: a history of the courtesan's aura / Dorothy Ko
Desire and writing in the late Ming play Parrot island / Katherine Carlitz
Women in Feng Menglong's Mountain songs / Yasushi Oki
Ming and Qing anthologies of women's poetry and their selection strategies / Kang-i Sun Chang
Changing the subject: gender and self-inscription in authors' prefaces and Shi poetry / Maureen Robertson
Writing her way out of trouble: Li Yuying in history and fiction / Ann Waltner
Embodying the disembodied: representations of ghosts and the feminine / Judith T. Zeitlin
De/constructing a feminine ideal in the eighteenth century: Random records of West-Green and the Story of Shuangqing / Grace S. Fong
Women's writing before and within the Hong lou meng / Haun Saussy
Beyond stereotypes: the twelve beauties in Qing court art and the Dream of the red chamber / Wu Hung
Ming loyalism and the woman's voice in fiction after Hong lou meng / Ellen Widmer.