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Early Women Writers

Zhulian xiu

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Author

Zhulian xiu

Location

Beijing

Dates

ca. 1270

Biography

Her name is simply the title of her renowned work which is widely known because a plethora of future scholars would write suites of songs about pearl, extolling her beauty and skill.

Works

Pearl Screen Beauty

Languages

Mandarin

Genres

Poetry, Muse

Editions and Translations

Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy. Women Writers of Traditional China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

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