Gilbert Fong
Biographic Data
| ID | 753847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilbert Fong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Fong |
| SIGNATURE | FONG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6428-8416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interview with Professor Grace S. Fong
Weijing Lu. Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China
Journal Article Weijing Lu. Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China. Get access Weijing Lu. Arranged Companions: Marriage and Intimacy in Qing China. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2021. Pp. 264. Paper $32.00. Grace S Fong Grace S Fong McGill University, Canada Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, Jun…
Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China
From Convention to Subversion: Case Studies on the Female Gaze in Premodern China
This article engages the ekphrastic mode—the literary representation of visual representation—to examine the female gaze instantiated in women's poetry on paintings of beautiful women in the Ming and Qing periods. Through four case studies, it shows how women poets and painters participated in the visual culture of late imperial China and negotiated gendered difference in their aesthetic vision and artistic production
Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique
Feminism, feminist theory, feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca. 1600–1911). Their research drew on developments in Western feminist theories while problematizing certain applications. In this article, I review major debates in 1980s and 199…
Project Metamorphosis: Designing a Dynamic Framework for Converting Musical Compositions into Paintings
The authors present an automated, rule-based system for converting piano compositions into paintings. Using a color-note association scale presented by Edward Maryon in 1919, which correlates a 12-tone scale with 12 hues of the color circle, the authors present a simple approach for extracting colors associated with each note played in a piano composition. The authors also describe the color extraction and art generation process in detail, as wel…
Historical Research through the Lens of Women: The Ming Qing Women's Writings Digital Archive and Database
This essay provides an overview of the goals, main features, and digital tools of the Ming Qing Women's Writings (MQWW) project, which contains more than 400 collections of literary writings by women (17 th – early 20 th centuries). The website ( http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/ ) makes accessible a free archive of scanned images of texts with searchable components and a downloadable database. It highlights MQWW's functionalities and ac…
A Wife’s Moving Tribute: Epitaph for Mr. Zeng (Zeng Yong, 1813–1862), by Zuo Xijia (1831–1896)
The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China by Ronald Egan
Reviewed by: The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China by Ronald Egan Grace S. Fong Ronald Egan. The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. Pp. xi + 422. $59.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0674726697. Ronald Egan's book on Li Qingzhao is an immense work of peerless scholarship and erudition that should single-handedly right the balance …
The Life and Afterlife of Ling Zhiyuan (1831–1852) and Her Poetry Collection
This study examines the construction of women's life histories in literary collections through the exemplary case of Ling Zhiyuan 凌祉媛 and her poetry collection, Cuiluoge shici gao 翠螺閣詩詞稿 (Drafts of Poems and Song Lyrics from the Green Snail Shell Loft). Published in 1854 by her young husband Ding Bing (1832–1899) after her untimely death, this small collection is framed by numerous paratexts such as prefaces, verse inscriptions, biographical acco…
The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing
Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women's experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and reli…
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Reclaiming Subjectivity in a Time of Loss: Ye Shaoyuan (1589–1648) and Autobiographical Writing in the Ming-Qing Transition
The self-writings of Ye Shaoyuan are used to explore the ways in which one late Ming literatus responded to personal and political misfortunes in the last ten years of his life, which coincided with the Manchu conquest of China. The relationship between textual production and the agency of displaced and dispossessed subjects, or the question of how discursive genres are negotiated for empowerment in regimes of subjection and subject formation, is…
Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China
This book addresses the critical question of how to approach the study of women's writing. It explores various methods of engaging in a meaningful way with a rich corpus of poetry and prose written by women of the late Ming and Qing periods. The book treats different genres of writing and includes translations of texts that are made available for the first time in English. Among the works considered are the life-long poetic record of Gan Lirou, t…
Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Different Worlds of Discourse explores the late Qing reform era (c. 1895–1912) from three interrelated and comparatively neglected perspectives: the construction of gender roles, the development of literary genres, and the emergence of new forms of print media
Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater . Sy Ren Quah
Gender and the Failure of Canonization: Anthologizing Women's Poetry in the Late Ming
Alternative Modernities, or a Classical Woman of Modern China: The Challenging Trajectory of Lü Bicheng's (1883-1943) Life And Song Lyrics
Lü Bicheng is remembered today mostly for her accomplishment as a poet in the classical ci genre (song lyrics). Drawing on her writings and those of her contemporaries, this study attempts to reconstruct Lü Bicheng's multifaceted, cosmopolitan life trajectory that has become obscured by the nationalist turn in twentieth-century China. By excavating Lü Bicheng's many self-inventions and metamorphoses, I aim to show how the ci genre as her mode of …
Female Hands: Embroidery as a Knowledge Field in Women's Everyday Life in Late Imperial and Early Republican China
Having just put aside the silver plectrum, She sits down and picks up the gilded needle. To make drawing lots she writes in small standard script, Competing at gathering flowers she breaks her delicate nails. They are easy to turn over but it’s hard to know what they express. They can reach out so one doesn’t object to their softness. Holding a golden shuttle, she weaves by the loom, Close-fitting sleeves conceal slenderness.1
Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts
Signifying Bodies: The Cultural Significance of Suicide Writings by Women in Ming-Qing China
This paper examines the form, content, and cultural significance of poems written by a number of otherwise unknown women before they committed suicide. The specific conditions under which these inscriptions are produced are disorder or violence in various forms, whether cultural, social, or familial, that threaten the integrity of the female body. The suicide poems are often accompanied by a short autobiographical preface. The author argues that …
Writing Self and Writing Lives: Shen Shanbao's (1808-1862) Gendered Auto/Biographical Practices
This study examines the dual strategies of auto/biographical production in the immensely rich corpus of writings by the nineteenth-century woman literata Shen Shanbao recently rediscovered by the author in rare book collections in China. The focus of the analysis is on the conditions of production of self-writing, including the processes of textual organization, genre manipulation, and self-editing. The study demonstrates an exemplary instance of…
Inscribing Desire: Zhu Yizun's Love Lyrics in Jingzhiju qinqu
Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang
Persona and Mask in the Song Lyric (Ci)
From Convention to Subversion: Case Studies on the Female Gaze in Premodern China
This article engages the ekphrastic mode—the literary representation of visual representation—to examine the female gaze instantiated in women's poetry on paintings of beautiful women in the Ming and Qing periods. Through four case studies, it shows how women poets and painters participated in the visual culture of late imperial China and negotiated gendered difference in their aesthetic vision and artistic production
Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique
Feminism, feminist theory, feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca. 1600–1911). Their research drew on developments in Western feminist theories while problematizing certain applications. In this article, I review major debates in 1980s and 199…
Wu Wenying's Yongwu Ci: Poem as Artifice and Poem as Metaphor
Wu Wenying's Yongwu Ci: Poem as Artifice and Poem as Metaphor
Chinese Middlebrow Fiction. From the Ch'ing and Early Republican Eras
Wu Wenying and the Art of Southern Song Ci Poetry
The thesis studies the ci poetry of Wu Wenying (c.1200-c.1260) in the context of Southern Song ci poetics and aims to establish its significance in contemporary developments and in the tradition of ci criticism. Chapter One explores the moral and aesthetic implications of Wu's life as a "guest-poet" patronized by officials and aristocrats, and profiles two relationships in Wu's life, the loss of which generated a unique corpus of love poetry. To …
Wu Wenying and the Art of Southern Song Ci Poetry
The thesis studies the ci_ poetry of Wu Wenying (c.1200c.1260) in the context of Southern Song c_i_ poetics and aims to establish its significance in contemporary developments and in the tradition of ci criticism.Chapter One explores the moral and aesthetic implications of Wu's life as a "guest-poet" patronized by officials and aristocrats, and profiles two relationships in Wu's life, the loss of which generated a unique corpus of love poetry.To …
Persona and Mask in the Song Lyric (Ci)
Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang
Inscribing Desire: Zhu Yizun's Love Lyrics in Jingzhiju qinqu
Writing Self and Writing Lives: Shen Shanbao's (1808-1862) Gendered Auto/Biographical Practices
This study examines the dual strategies of auto/biographical production in the immensely rich corpus of writings by the nineteenth-century woman literata Shen Shanbao recently rediscovered by the author in rare book collections in China. The focus of the analysis is on the conditions of production of self-writing, including the processes of textual organization, genre manipulation, and self-editing. The study demonstrates an exemplary instance of…
Signifying Bodies: The Cultural Significance of Suicide Writings by Women in Ming-Qing China
This paper examines the form, content, and cultural significance of poems written by a number of otherwise unknown women before they committed suicide. The specific conditions under which these inscriptions are produced are disorder or violence in various forms, whether cultural, social, or familial, that threaten the integrity of the female body. The suicide poems are often accompanied by a short autobiographical preface. The author argues that …
Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts
Gender and the Failure of Canonization: Anthologizing Women's Poetry in the Late Ming
Alternative Modernities, or a Classical Woman of Modern China: The Challenging Trajectory of Lü Bicheng's (1883-1943) Life And Song Lyrics
Lü Bicheng is remembered today mostly for her accomplishment as a poet in the classical ci genre (song lyrics). Drawing on her writings and those of her contemporaries, this study attempts to reconstruct Lü Bicheng's multifaceted, cosmopolitan life trajectory that has become obscured by the nationalist turn in twentieth-century China. By excavating Lü Bicheng's many self-inventions and metamorphoses, I aim to show how the ci genre as her mode of …
Female Hands: Embroidery as a Knowledge Field in Women's Everyday Life in Late Imperial and Early Republican China
Having just put aside the silver plectrum, She sits down and picks up the gilded needle. To make drawing lots she writes in small standard script, Competing at gathering flowers she breaks her delicate nails. They are easy to turn over but it’s hard to know what they express. They can reach out so one doesn’t object to their softness. Holding a golden shuttle, she weaves by the loom, Close-fitting sleeves conceal slenderness.1
Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater . Sy Ren Quah
Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China
This book addresses the critical question of how to approach the study of women's writing. It explores various methods of engaging in a meaningful way with a rich corpus of poetry and prose written by women of the late Ming and Qing periods. The book treats different genres of writing and includes translations of texts that are made available for the first time in English. Among the works considered are the life-long poetic record of Gan Lirou, t…
Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Different Worlds of Discourse explores the late Qing reform era (c. 1895–1912) from three interrelated and comparatively neglected perspectives: the construction of gender roles, the development of literary genres, and the emergence of new forms of print media
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Reclaiming Subjectivity in a Time of Loss: Ye Shaoyuan (1589–1648) and Autobiographical Writing in the Ming-Qing Transition
The self-writings of Ye Shaoyuan are used to explore the ways in which one late Ming literatus responded to personal and political misfortunes in the last ten years of his life, which coincided with the Manchu conquest of China. The relationship between textual production and the agency of displaced and dispossessed subjects, or the question of how discursive genres are negotiated for empowerment in regimes of subjection and subject formation, is…
The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing
Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women's experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and reli…
The Life and Afterlife of Ling Zhiyuan (1831–1852) and Her Poetry Collection
This study examines the construction of women's life histories in literary collections through the exemplary case of Ling Zhiyuan 凌祉媛 and her poetry collection, Cuiluoge shici gao 翠螺閣詩詞稿 (Drafts of Poems and Song Lyrics from the Green Snail Shell Loft). Published in 1854 by her young husband Ding Bing (1832–1899) after her untimely death, this small collection is framed by numerous paratexts such as prefaces, verse inscriptions, biographical acco…
The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China by Ronald Egan
Reviewed by: The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China by Ronald Egan Grace S. Fong Ronald Egan. The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. Pp. xi + 422. $59.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0674726697. Ronald Egan's book on Li Qingzhao is an immense work of peerless scholarship and erudition that should single-handedly right the balance …
A Wife’s Moving Tribute: Epitaph for Mr. Zeng (Zeng Yong, 1813–1862), by Zuo Xijia (1831–1896)
Historical Research through the Lens of Women: The Ming Qing Women's Writings Digital Archive and Database
This essay provides an overview of the goals, main features, and digital tools of the Ming Qing Women's Writings (MQWW) project, which contains more than 400 collections of literary writings by women (17 th – early 20 th centuries). The website ( http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/ ) makes accessible a free archive of scanned images of texts with searchable components and a downloadable database. It highlights MQWW's functionalities and ac…
Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique
Feminism, feminist theory, feminist literary theory were already highly contentious in what they represented to Euro-American critics and theorists in the 1980s, when scholars in Chinese literary studies began sustained research on women writers in late imperial China (ca. 1600–1911). Their research drew on developments in Western feminist theories while problematizing certain applications. In this article, I review major debates in 1980s and 199…
Project Metamorphosis: Designing a Dynamic Framework for Converting Musical Compositions into Paintings
The authors present an automated, rule-based system for converting piano compositions into paintings. Using a color-note association scale presented by Edward Maryon in 1919, which correlates a 12-tone scale with 12 hues of the color circle, the authors present a simple approach for extracting colors associated with each note played in a piano composition. The authors also describe the color extraction and art generation process in detail, as wel…
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