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Liang Xiaoyu - The Unrestrained Courtesan
- -First female playwright
- -interested in women's history
- -"unrestrained" because she could be vulagar
- Writing
- -collection of poetry
- -history of women past and present
- -play "United Primes" about cross-dresing
- -wrote poems ending in the same character
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Jing Pianpian - Loyal Courtesan
- -Promised to a man who left her, but remained loyal
- Writing
- -poetic collection - Flower-scattering Chants
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Ming Dynasty
- -foot binding wide-spread
- -smaller territory and weaker military than Yuan
- -strong commerce and culture
- -highly prosperous courtesean culture
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Ma Xianglan - high-spirited
- -skilled painter
- -plain-looking but high-spirited
- -trained apprentices in theatre
- -generous
- -threw large party for 70th birthday
- -died in lotus position
- Writing
- -poetic collection
- play-A tale of 3 lives: Ths story of the jade hairpins
- -courtesan gives her lover money for examinations
- -scholar marries daughter of official
- -haunts scholar to madness and suicide
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Liu Shi - legendary courtesan
- -good family
- -cruized on houseboat
- -moved in with young poet chen zilong
- -relationship with Qian Qianyi
- -married as wife, not concubine
- - After Qian Qianyi dies, hangs herself
- -cross-dressing
- -loyalist
- Writing
- -anthology of poetry with husband
- -section on women's poetry, wrote biographies
- -shi poetry, lyric, meditation on the past
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Shen Yixiu
- Mother of YeXiaoluan and Ye Wanwan
- writings
- - Oriole Pipings
- -About diceased daughters
- -Strong personal emotions
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Ye Xiaoluan
- Daughter of Shen Yixiu
- Raised by aunt and uncle
- Dies on her wedding day
- Writings
- - Noon Dreamhall collection
- - master of the cooking dream
- - song lyrics
- - painting and calligraphy
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Ye Wanwan
- Daughter of Shen Yixiu
- Happy marriage
- Writings
- - Words of sorrow
- - challenges traditional associations with seasons
- - pain of separation, nastalga, negativw portrayal of marriage
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Banana Garden Poetry Club
- Hangzhou 1665-75
- fenale poetic and friendship community
- linked verses - group composition
- activity outside the realm of the home
- wide range of subjects and voices
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Gu Taiqing - Manchu Poet
- most famous manchu poet
- good relationship with husband, then kicked out when he dies
- writings
- - Heavenly Wandering Pavilion Collection
- - Shadow Dream of the Red Chamber
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Yuan Mei
- Talented, well known male poet
- many female desciples
- self-made success
- deliberately unconventional
- anthology of female students
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Xi Peilan
- Best known of Yuan Mei's desciples
- wife of famous poet Sun Yuanxiang
- Writings
- - centered sround family
- - for son after illness - narrative, dramatic journey
- - Songs of a broken heart - lyrics with prose narrative
- - to comfort my husband - praising him
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Luo Qilian
- 3 different male teachers
- writes about the plight of the woman poet
- preface
- - justifies female poetry
- - seeks out master poets
- - critisized for writing/socializing with men
- - not less talent in women, just harder to be successful
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Wu Zao - PLaywrite and Lyricist
- Not from literary family but educated
- marriage only path of social mobility
- writing
- - the fake image
- - alternates between norhtern and southern tune - masculine / feminine
- - Lyrics
- - Flower screen lyrics
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Qin Jin - Beheaded Feminists
- *Documentary*
- From line of officials
- unhappy marriage
- left husband, kids raised by her mother
- Went to Japan
- Feminist
- Women's magazine
- Writing
- - Shi poetry, song lyric, lecture, plucking rhymes, Essay
- - Women's education
- - Alter women to injustice
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Plucking Rhymes
- passages in verse and passages in prose
- female audience
- few literary illusions
- broader, possibly illerterate audience
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Tao Zhenhuai
- First female author of plucking rhymes
- loss of infant son
- Writing
- - A Rain of Heavenly Flowers
- - Zuo Weiming
- - Paragon of lyalty
- - Raises daughter as son
- - orders younger daughter to kill herself
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Zhu Suxin
- Little known, collaborated with performer Xiang Jin
- Writing
- - Lingked RIngs of Jade
- - Conventions
- - tries to avoid immoral conventions
- - 16 plot elements to avoid
- - triangular love interest
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Chen Duansheng
- Husband exiled for cheating on exams
- Writing
- - Karmic bonds of Reincarnation
- - first 64 chapters over a few years at parentl home
- - next 4 chapters 12 years later
- - woman who cross-dresses
- - becomes prime minister
- - can't admit real identity even to family/love
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Genre
- rhapsody
- shi poem
- song lyric
- drama (aria+suite)
- olucking rhymes
- women's script
- essay
- speech
- fiction
- memorial
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Class/group
- elite/non-elite
- Courtesan
- Religous
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Han Elite women
- Stereotypes
- - Xiaoqing
- - Zhu Xuzhen
- Gender consciouness
- - Qiu jin
- - Wuzao
- Patriotism
- - Qui Jin
- Network
- - Banana Garden
- - Yuan Mei Desciples
- - Matrons & Maidons
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