| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Paul S. Ropp. Banished Immortal: Searching for Shuangqing, China's Peasant Woman Poet. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2001. Pp. xvii, 297. $45.00.

One of the great pleasures of reading and writing history these days is the revelation that what might have once seemed exotic and too alien for ordinary historical investigation is no longer extraordinary. This observation is particularly relevant to the history of literate Chinese women during the late imperial period (1600–1900). To date, the most successful studies of writing women of this era have focused on the urban Jiangnan elite. There, in the sophisticated milieu of Nanjing, Suzhou, or Hangzhou, educated women had the greatest resources to write and publish, and thus leave a record of their accomplishments. We now know that well-bred courtesans who matched wits with their sophisticated patrons, as well as semicloistered women from upper-class families, have generated new voices in Chinese literature since the end of the sixteenth century, and that men began to write about these talented women. But what about female literary culture elsewhere in imperial China? And how did male perceptions of female-authored writing change over time? . . .

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