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Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China’s literary and cultural history. She stands out as the great exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were male. But at what price to our understanding of her as a writer does this distinction come? The Burden of Female Talent challenges conventional modes of thinking about Li Qingzhao as a devoted but often lonely wife and, later, a forlorn widow. By examinin

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Author

Ronald C. Egan

Publisher

Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Harvard University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781684170746

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Poetry, Biography

Updated

2026-03-25