Zhuo Wenjun 卓文君 – 选择爱的女子
卓文君——选择爱的女子 English Zhuo Wenjun is the earliest of China’s four great talented women (四大才女), and in some ways the most dramatic. Her significance rests not primarily on the volume of her writing but on a choice — in an era…
Women of Letters 才女
卓文君——选择爱的女子 English Zhuo Wenjun is the earliest of China’s four great talented women (四大才女), and in some ways the most dramatic. Her significance rests not primarily on the volume of her writing but on a choice — in an era…
上官婉儿——诗人、官员、幕后者 English Shangguan Wan’er occupies a unique position in Chinese literary and political history: she was simultaneously one of the most accomplished poets of the Tang dynasty and one of its most influential political figures — a woman who shaped…
蔡文姬——诗人、囚徒、幸存者 English Cai Wenji is one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of Chinese literature — not only because of the quality of her poetry, which is exceptional, but because of the circumstances under which it was written.…
李清照——词的重塑者 English Li Qingzhao is regarded by most scholars of Chinese literature as the greatest female poet in the tradition, and by many as one of the greatest poets of any gender in any era. She was active in the…