Chinese women in the imperial past : new perspectives / edited by Harriet T. Zurndorfer.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Text uses Wade-Giles romanization.
"Papers in this book, with the exception of one, were all presented at the Workshop 'New Directions in the Study of Chinese Women 1000-1800' held at Leiden University, Sept. 12-13, 1996."--Preface.

Contents: Male fantasies and female realities : Chu Shu-chen and Chang Yü-niang and their biographers / Wilt Idema -- Ritual and sexual bodies of the groom and the bride in ritual manuals of the Sung dynasty (eleventh through thirteenth centuries) / Christian de Pee -- Women practicing medicine in premodern China / Angela Ki Che Leung -- Blood and statistics : reconstructing the population dynamics of late imperial China from the biographies of virtuous women in local gazetteers / Mark Elvin -- Women in the life and thought of Ch'en Ch'üeh : the perspective of the seventeenth century / Anne T. Gerritsen -- Between constraints and opportunities : widows, witches, and shrews in eighteenth century China / Paola Paderni -- Little Vimalakirti : Buddhism and poetry in the writings of Chiang Chu (1764-1804) / Beata Grant -- Encouragement from the opposite gender : male scholars and women's publications in Ch'ing China, a bibliographic study / Clara Wing-chung Ho -- Women in the epistemological strategy of Chinese encyclopedia : preliminary observations from some Sung, Ming, and Ch'ing works / Harriet T. Zurndorfer.
Added keywords: Zhu Shuzhen 朱淑真

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