"Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarter

To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian tex

Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we app

The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was

A collection of five erotic stories from Ming dynasty China, in English for the first time.