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9
Zuo Chen, in Chen, Xinfangge, “Ba,” 1a‐1b (at the end of Chapter 4).
10
Ibid. The collection includes six poems by Zuo Chen, two are linked verses with Chen, with each
writing alternating lines or couplets.
11
Chen, Xinfangge, “Zixu,” 1b.
12
She notes that the first poem of the collection “Plum Tree in the Moon” was written at twelve
at her father’s command.
13
On Shen’s life and poetry and the Mingyuan shihua, see Grace Fong, “Writing Self and Writing
Lives: Shen Shanbao’s (1808‐1862) Gendered Auto/Biographical Practices.” Nan Nü: Men, Women
and Gender in China 2.2 (2000): 259‐303. See also Fong, Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and
Writing (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008), 142‐158.
14
Shen Shanbao, Mingyuan shihua (preface dated 1845), 11.16a‐17a.
15
Chen, Xinfangge, 5.33a.
16
They had a daughter named Xiaolian with whom she had a close relationship. Xiaolian married
but later predeceased Chen. For poems related to and two poems by Zuo Xiaolian, see Chen,
Xinfangge, 2.21a‐22b, 3.15b, 5.11b‐12b.
17
Allusion to Poem #21 “Xiaoxing” (Little star) in the Shi jing, which has been read as referring to
concubines. Chen Yulian uses the goddess of the moon Chang’e being alone in Guanghan Palace
to refer to herself. The moon has waned at the end of the month.
18
Chen, Xinfangge, 4.12b‐13a.
19
Chen Zuwang’s preface, in Chen, Xinfangge, “Xu,” 1a‐2b.
20
Chen, “Fuke Xinfangge ziti batu,” in Xinfangge, 5.33a‐35b.
21
Chen, Xinfangge, 5.34b.
22
Chen, Xinfangge, 5.20b‐21a.
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