Early Women Writers

Xia Yunying

Beijing

15th c

Grandaughter of emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, Xia was a reputable young scholar who unfortunately died at the age of 24.

Anthology of poems called Duanqing ge shi or Poems from the Tower of Utter Purity

Mandarin

Poetry

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