Grace S Fong

Department of East Asian Studies

Research and teaching interests

Classical Chinese poetry, literary theory and criticism, gender and women's writing, Ming and Qing period fiction, autobiography, travel writing

Representative publications

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Current projects

Herself an Author: Gender, Writing, and Agency in Late Imperial China. Book manuscript.

“Shi Poetry of the Ming and Qing,” chapter in How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology , edited by Zong-qi Cai.

Biographical entries of women poets of the Qing dynasty for the Encyclopedia of Women in World History , Oxford University Press.

A literary biography of the Late Qing/Republican period woman poet Lü Bicheng (1883-1943).

Project Editor, Ming-Qing Women’s Writings: A Joint Digitization Project between McGill University and Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, 2005-. (Related Links: Ming-Qing Women’s Writings)