摘要
<正>Women writers as an analytical category has since the late 1990s gained considerable traction in the studies of pre-modern Chinese literature,with translations, anthologies, and thematic explorations surfacing anew every few years in either monographs or edited volumes.Reference to feminist literary criticism as an analytical framework,however, is still a fairly recent development-that is, until Ronald Egan’s definitive work under review here on the most well-known female poet of the entire Chinese tradition,Li Qingzhao李清照(1084-ca. 1155).