Women In Dynastic China (Ancient Time to 1911)


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This webpage focuses on resources on women in China from ancient
times to the end of the Qing 清 dynasty or 1911. In the University of
Toronto online public access catalogue, or UTCat, entries are grouped by
the Library of Congress subject headings. You may wish to try the
following:


Subject Headings

China--Court and courtiers

Empresses--China

Feminism--China

Marriage--China

Women--China

Women--China--Anecdotes

Women--China--Biography

Women--China--History

Women--China--Social conditions


BOOKS
  • 中國歷代名媛
    DS 734 .C5274 1993 EAST

  • 中國婦女生活史
    HQ 1767 .C437 1990 EAST

  • 女人的蒼涼歲月
    HQ 1767 .C438 1989 EAST

  • 中國婦女史論集
    HQ 1767 .C473 1988 v.1-4 EAST

  • 中國婦女史論文集
    HQ 1767 .C477 v.1-2 EAST

  • 中國樂妓史
    HQ 1767 .H76 1993X EAST

  • 古今閨媛軼事
    HQ 1767 .K8 1978 EAST

  • 歷代閨媛軼事
    HQ 1767 .K815 1993X EAST

  • 中國婦女生活楞U
    HQ 1767 .L63 1994 EAST

  • 中國婦女活動記
    HQ 1767 .Y3 EAST

  • 宋代民婦的角色與地位
    HQ 1767 .Y83 1998X EAST

  • 中國婦女文學史
    PL 2278 .T29 1978 EAST

  • A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665
    R 602 .F87 1999X GERSTM

  • Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
    GT 498 .F66W36 2000X ROBA
    391.41 .W246A OISE/UT WERC

  • Chao Chün: Beauty in Exile
    DS 725 .W76 ROBA

  • Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom
    DS 725 .S48 ROBA
    GN 161 .L4 VUPT

  • Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives
    HQ 1767 .C4535 1999 ROBA

  • Chinese Women through Chinese Eyes
    HQ 1767 .C4584 1992 ROBA
    HQ 1767 .C454 1992 NEWC

  • 'Chu Hsi and Women's Education' in Neo-Confucian Education:The Formative Stage
    370.951 .N438 OISE/UT
    LA 1131.8 .N46 1989 ROBA

  • Chu Hsi's Family Rituals
    GN 635 .C5C4813 1991 ERIN
    GN 635 .C5C48513 1991 ROBA

  • Court and Family in Sung China, 960-1279
    HN 740 .Z9E434 1986 ROBA

  • Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming
    HQ 1137 .C5C37 1999X ROBA

  • Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930
    HQ 684 .A37 1989 ROBA, SMC

  • Embroidered Gauze: Portraits of Famous Chinese Ladies
    DS 734 .H5 ROBA

  • Empresses and Consorts
    DS 748.25 .C49 1999X ROBA

  • Family and Property in Sung China: Yüan Ts'ai's Precepts for Social Life
    BJ 1558 .C5Y8313 1984 ROBA, VUPT

  • Footbinding, Feminism, and Freedom: The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China
    GT 498 .F66F36 1997 ERIN, SCAR
    GT 498 .F66F36 1997X ROBA

  • Han Social Structure
    HN 673 .C556 ROBA

  • Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940
    GN 635 .C5K56 1986 ROBA

  • Markets, Discrimination, and the Economic Contribution of Women in China
    HQ 1768 .B46 1993 ROBA

  • Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society
    HQ 734 .M3873 1991 NEWC, ROBA

  • Monstrous Regiment: Women Rulers in Men's Worlds
    HQ 1236 .M44 SCC
    HQ 1236 .M45 ROBA
    320.082 .M645M OISE/UT WERC

  • Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early 20th Century
    HQ 1767.5 .A3N68 2000X ROBA

  • Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and the State in Sung China (960-1279)
    GN 480 .B67 1998X ROBA

  • Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century
    HQ 1767 .M355 1997X ROBA
    305.420951 .M282P OISE/UT WERC

  • Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition
    HQ 1767 .P74 1999X ROBA

  • Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China
    HQ 1767 .R36 1998 NEWC
    HQ 1767 .R36 1998X ROBA

  • Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China
    HQ 1767 .K6 1994 SMC
    305.40951 .K75T OISE/UT WERC

  • Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
    HQ 1768 .B72 1997 TRIN, SCAR

  • The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China: A Case Study of the Po-Ling Ts'ui Family
    HT 647 .E27 ROBA
    HT 647 .E27 1978 ROMF

  • The Chinese Femme Fatale: Stories from the Ming Period
    PL 2658 .E8C466 1994 ROBA

  • The Empress Wu
    DS 749.3 .F48 1956 ROBA
    DS 749.3 .F48 1968 ROMF

  • The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
    HQ 684 .A25 1993 ROBA

  • The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics and Gender
    HQ 1767 .S24 2000X ROBA

  • Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission Servitude, and Escape
    HQ 1768 .W64 1994 NEWC, SCAR

  • Women and Property in China: 960-1949
    KNN 778 .B47 1999 SCAR
    KNN 778 .B47 1999X ROBA

  • Women in China: Current Directions in Historical Scholarship
    HQ 1766 .W65 TRIN
    HQ 1767 .W65 ROBA

  • Women in Chinese Society
    HQ 1737 .W65 ROBA

  • Wu Tse-T'ien and the Politics of Legitimation in T'ang China
    DS 749.42 .T36G84 ROBA

  • Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism
    PL 2278 .W65 1999 SCAR
    PL 2278 .W65 1999X ROBA

  • Writing Women in Late Imperial China
    PL 2264 .W72 1997X ROBA

  • Yang Kuei-Fei, The Most Famous Beauty of China
    DS 725 .W8 1924 ROBA, ROMF


BIOGRAPHIES


  • 近代中華婦女自敘詩文選
    CT 3710 .C57 v.1 EAST

  • 中華名女名姬私史
    CT 3710 .C576 1998 v.1-6 EAST

  • 中國歷代后妃
    DS 734 .H597 1990 v.1-2 EAST

  • 孽怨深深鎖不住: 中國歷代后妃紀略
    DS 734 .N43 1997 EAST

  • 名女人外傳
    DS 734 .P385 1986 EAST

  • 帝后別傳
    DS 734 .T837 1987 EAST

  • 千古名女人
    DS 734 .Y487 1989 EAST

  • 烈女外傳
    DS 736 .Y56 1985 EAST

  • 楊貴妃, 安祿山
    DS 749.42 .Y35Y35 1985 EAST

  • 李師師傳
    DS 751.6 .L5H86 1991 EAST

  • 一代名妃的悲劇
    DS 764.23 .C473L56 1991 EAST

  • 十大名妓
    HQ 250 .A5C45 1990 EAST

  • 烈女傳
    HQ 1767 .C43 EAST

  • Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century
    HQ 1767.5 .A3N68 2000X ROBA

  • Testimony of a Confucian Woman: The Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942
    CT 1828 .T688A3 1993 ROBA

  • The Position of Women in Early China according to the Lieh Nü Chuan, 'The Biographies of Chinese Eminent Women'
    DS 725 .L513 1980 ROBA


DICTIONARIES


  • 古今中外女名人詞典
    CT 3710 .K8 1989 EAST

  • Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911
    HQ 1767.5 .A3B56 1998X EAST (GR)


BIBLIOGRAPHIES
  • 近百年中國婦女論著總目提­n
    Z 7964 .C5C5 1996X EAST (CR)

  • 近代中國婦女史中文資料目錄
    Z 7964 .C5C512 1995 EAST (CR)

  • Women in China: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography
    Z 7964 .C5W44 1984 EAST (GR), GENR, NEWC REF

  • Women in China: Bibliography of Available English Language Materials
    Z 7964 .C5C47 1984 EAST (GR), GENR


CHRONOLOGIES
  • 兩宋后妃事­z編年
    DS 751.5 .H83 1997X EAST


JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • ­咱Z中國新女界雜誌
    HQ 1104 .C485 EAST

  • 婦女與兩性學刊
    HQ 1104 .F854 EAST

  • 婦女與兩性研究通訊
    HQ 1111 .F82 EAST

  • 近代中國婦女史研究
    HQ 1766 .C45 EAST

  • Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China

    HQ 1075.5 .C6N36 ROBA;
    Current issues in
    PRRH

    Selected Articles

    Blake, C. Fred

    'Foot-binding in Neo-Confucian China and the Appropriation of Female
    Labor'
    Signs 19/3 1994: 676-712

    HQ 1101 .S5 ROBA

    Bokenkamp, Stephen R
    'A Medieval
    Feminist Critique of the Chinese World Order: The Case of Wu Zhao'

    Religion 28 1998: 383-392
    BL 1
    .R34 ROBA

    Carlitz, Katherine
    'Shrines, Governing-Class
    Identity, and the Cult of Widow Fidelity in Mid-Ming Jiangnan'

    Journal of Asian Studies 56/3 1997: 612-640

    DS 501 .J55 ROBA

    Ebrey, Patricia
    'Concubines in Song
    China'
    Journal of Family History: Studies in
    Family, Kinship and Demography
    11 1986: 1-24
    HQ 1
    .J66 ROBA

    Gates, Hill
    'The Commodization of Chinese Women'

    Signs 14/4 1989: 799-832
    HQ
    1101 .S5 ROBA

    Hinsch, Bret
    'Metaphysics and reality of the
    feminine in early Neo-Confucian thought'
    Women's
    Studies International Forum
    11/6 1988
    PER
    NEWC

    Kahn, Harold
    'Some Mid-Ch'ing Views of the Monarchy'

    Journal of Asian Studies 24/2 1965:
    229-244
    DS 501 .J55 ROBA

    Wong, Joseph.
    'The
    Rise of Empress Wu: A Reappraisal'
    Contacts Between
    Cultures
    4 1990: 104-106
    DS 1.5 .I56 1990
    ROBA

    Yang, Lien-Sheng.
    'Female Rulers of Imperial China'

    Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 23 1961:
    47-61
    DS 501 .H3 ROBA


WEB RESOURCES



A
Celebration of Women Writers

Few brief biographies on
women writers from China, including Ban Zhao, Li Qingzhao, Sun Bu'er, and
Yu Xuanji.


ABOUT:
The Human Internet

Broad coverage of Chinese women,
including American Asian women, their life and history. Contains a
resource page on the Dowager Cixi, short biographies on the writers Xue
Tao and Yu Xuanji, a fairly extensive booklist, and a link to the Journal
of Women's History's 1996 Winter issue on "Chinese Women's
History".

China at the
Millennium

A short introductory essay titled "Millennial
Women - Women of the Han Dynasty".


Chinese
Culture

A course-based site which aims to provide "an
introduction to Chinese culture". The fifth of the seven thematic sections
(See the Class Outlines) focuses on Chinese gender systems, covering
topics such as gender, eunuch, bound feet, Ban Zhao, etc.


Internet
Women's History Sourcebook

"This sourcebook attempts to
present online documents and secondary discussions which reflect the
various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined
historical periods and areas." Includes essays, term papers, and excerpts
on a few selected Chinese women and women's oppression.


The [online]
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)

Provides references to
western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of
Asia published since 1971. It is available via subscription, and can be
accessed via PCs in the library.


Women
in World History Curriculum

Contains mostly classroom
materials targeting high school students, with brief introductions to the
Dowager Cixi and the poet Li Qingzhao, and two essays on Empress Wu
Zetian.

World
History

A short essay, "Women of the Mongol Court", by
Morris Rossabi.




OTHER LIBRARIES


Libraries, which may have resources on this
topic, include:

EAST: Cheng Yu Tung East Asian
Library
ERIN: Erindale College
Library
GENR: Reference, Robarts
Library
GERSTM: Gerstein Science Information
Centre
NEWC: New College Library
OISE/UT
WERC:
Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education/UT
PRRH: Current Periodicals, Robarts
Library
ROBA: Robarts Library
ROMF: Royal
Ontario Museum Information Studies
SCAR, SCC: Bladen
Library
SMC: St. Michael's College Library
TRIN:
Trinity College Library
VUPT: Victoria University
Library

Subject
Studies of women
Area of study
China studies