Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China

Abstract

dynasty rescued the concubine character from oblivion and imbued her with multivalent types of agency — as a concubine, a knight-errant, a loyal subject of the state, and a god-dess. This study examines the relationships among multiple types of authorship: literati authorship of chuanqi dramas, collective authorship of folk opera