Early Women Writers

Zhao luanluan

Chang'an (Xi'an)

9th c

Zhao Luanluan was a prodigious courtesan who wrote works describing her oppulent sorroundings and boredom in the Tong dynasty's capital.

Five Lyric Outcries from the Boudoir

Mandarin

Poetry

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