Recs if you like The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature...

here’s how the women of china lived and made a space for themselves in their own patriarchal society.

— “the eighteen changes of a girl between childhood and adulthood.”

books related to classical chinese poetry, from translations to academic monographs to biographies and anything in between. the emojis chosen represent some of the most common themes in chinese poetry: the moon, nature, and alcohol.

a primer on the literary tradition of 志怪 zhiguai, which records tales of the strange and the supernatural.

the title of this list is a play on the translation of pu songling’s 聊齋誌異 / strange tales from a chinese studio, which is a great place to start!