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Early Women Writers

Bao Linghui

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Author

Bao Linghui

Dates

d. ca. 464

Biography

Younger sister of renowned poet, Bao Zhao, wrote poems about female lovers longing for an absent partner.

Works

Rewriting of budoir lament Nineteen Ancient Poems, commentary on Bao Linghui

Languages

Mandarin

Genres

Poetry, Scholarship

Editions and Translations

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

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