Rey Chow

Both Welland and Chow note the cultural biases that underpinned assessments of Chinese women writers' publications of the early-twentieth century. Chow observes, for instance, that views of women writers as immersed in subjectivism and sentimentality...

Rey Chow begins an analysis of three stories from this collection by identifying LS's status, during and after her time, as a guixiu pai zuojia: a writer of guixiu school, an implicitly-pejorative label for well-bred...