These exceptional works by female Chinese authors reflect on topics from the impact of rapid urbanization on Chinese women to the trauma of sexual abuse victims
Female authors were depressingly scarce through much of Chinese history (exceptions like the Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao aside), with male voices dominating literature for centuries. Thankfully recent decades have seen a boom in works by women, with readers enthusiastically consuming writing from increasingly diverse perspectives. To celebrate the proliferation of female creators in genres from sci-fi to poetry, we‘ve compiled a list of five must-read works by exceptional Chinese female writers:
Liu Jue is the co-managing editor of The World of Chinese Magazine. She has a Master of Arts in Communication from Middle Tennessee State University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Minzu University. She has been working for TWOC since 2012. She is interested in covering history, traditional culture, and Chinese language.
