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* * * Canonicity and Women Writers women writers were triply marginalized: denied (1) access to education and literacy; (2) access to the literary field; (3) access to the canon 1949 survey of collections, histories, compendiums show that some 3000 women writers existed in the course of Chinese literary history; Yet, we know of only a handful of women writers in traditional China: Ban Zhao 班昭 (Han); Li Qingzhao 李清照 (Song) and other ci (詞) writers; storytellers; tanci 彈詞 were one of the few forms written by women Women Writers A modern rendering of the Song poet Li Qingzhao Feminist revisionist scholarship . . . has begun to dig into historical sources and discover these female literary voices, but these efforts also prove that women’s literary voices had been silenced through exclusion recognizes that our view of women in premodern China has largely been a modern construction we don’t want to take this revisionist scholarship too far (Ko, with her book on footbinding [see right], seems to almost glorify this barbarous practice) in fact, the social position of women, the marginalization of women writers, and the male discursive control over images of women were the product of a highly patriarchal society Women Writers Confucian Attitudes toward women whatever some say about ren 仁 and sagehood being something possible for all, the Confucian attitude toward women was very negative Confucius is renowned for having said “A women’s virtue lies in having no talent” (女子無才便是德) this social and moral philosophy laid the foundation for the hierarchical and patriarchal society that developed in traditional China it seemed to justify and legitimize the systematic oppression of women Handbooks for women (Ban Zhao Nujie 女戒 and Liu Xiang Lienu zhuan 列女傳) Women Writers “Humility means yielding and acting respectful, putting others first and oneself last, never mentioning one’s own good deeds or denying one’s own faults, enduring insults and bearing with mistreatment, all with due t