Women & gender

The Red Brush project is a collection of texts in Chinese
from a wide range of writings from Imperial China, by and
about women writers. The website for this collection is
available in both English and Chinese.

This project focuses on the Lienü zhuan (Categorized
Biographies of Women) of Liu Xiang (77-6 B.C.), the
earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely
devoted to the moral education of women. The book consists
of biographical accounts of female role models in early
China and became the standard textbook for women’s
education for the next two millennia. This digital archive
serves as a publicly accessible tool for scholarly
exploration of early woodblock editions of the Lienü zhuan
held by the National Library of China, as well as other

Upto December 2015, the Ming-Qing Women's Writings
Digitization Project has now contained 214 collections of
writings by women of the Ming-Qing period. For biographical
data on the women writers, the user can click on the woman
author's name linked to the China Biographical Database
hosted by the Harvard-Yenching Library.

Ling Long is a Chinese magazine on women published in
Shanghai between the tumultuous years of 1931 and 1937.
Today, the magazine is a valuable resource for researchers
studying social life and women's issues of Shanghai in the
Republican-era (1911-49) . This digitized collection of Ling
Long by Columbia University is one of the most complete
holdings of the magazine outside China.

This online portal is created by the Multicultural
History Society of Ontario (MHSO) to bring
together over 1,000 historical photographs, 33
oral history interviews and numerous other
archival materials about Chinese Canadian women to
address their life experiences,
challenges and accomplishments. The years between
1923 and 1967 in Canada were marked by
discriminatory immigration policy. During this
period of time, severe restrictions on Chinese
immigration, coupled with prior patterns of
Chinese migration, led to disproportionately few