Woman in Chinese

For the first time: the female experience recorded by women and encoded in the pictograms of the Chinese characters, and the female composition of the inner chapters of the Classic of Poetry. This book, with its clear images of the characters, explained in detail, and its splendid translations of the women-written poems of the Classic of Poetry, vastly expands in time and space the record of female genius. To this is added a translation of the poetry of Li Ching Jao, the great woman poet of the Sung dynasty, whose work can now be appreciated for the first time for its truly unique qualities, as the culmination of a Chinese women’s literary tradition.