Required Texts

  • Women in Early Imperial China. Bret Hinsch. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
  • Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. Lisa Raphals. Albany: State University of New York, 1998  (available in its entirety at: www.netlibrary.com; just type the title, but you need to be on campus)
  • Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women. Sylvia Brinton Perera. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1981 (available in its entirety at: www.netlibrary.com; just type the title, but you need to be on campus)
  • The Chinese Femme Fatale. Anne E. McLaren. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1994
  • Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. ed. V. Mair. Columbia UP, 1994.
  • The Butcher’s Wife Li Ang, trans. Howard Goldblatt. Joint Publishing, 1990
  • Virgin Widows Gu Hua, trans. Howard Goldblatt. University of Hawaii Press, 1996
  • Rouge of the North Eileen Chang, University of California Press, 1998
  • Waiting Ha Jin, Vintage, 2000
  • Cany Mian Mian. Back Bay Book, 2003. ISBN 0-316-56356-0