Cover illustration: Detail of Ding Yicheng’s painting Gazing Off from Mount Ping in Springtime, featuring a portrait of Luo Qilan. Permission to reproduce the image was granted by the National Palace Museum, Beijing.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sun, Chengjuan, author.
Title: Women as writing subjects in high Qing China : reconfiguring the poetics of feminine propriety / by Chengjuan Sun.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. | Series: Women and gender in China studies, 1877-5772 ; volume 14 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024025027 (print) | LCCN 2024025028 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004695153 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004706989 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women—China—History—17th century. | Women—China—History—18th century. | China—History—1644–1795. | Women in public life—China. | Chinese literature—Women authors.
Classification: LCC HQ1767 .S85 2024 (print) | LCC HQ1767 (ebook) | DDC 305.4/0951—dc23/ENG/20240607
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024025027
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024025028
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ISSN 1877-5772
ISBN 978-90-04-69515-3 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-70698-9 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004706989
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