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Reviews for Women and Writing in Modern China

 Women and Writing in Modern China magazine reviews

The average rating for Women and Writing in Modern China based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.has a rating of 4 stars

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-15 00:00:00
1998was given a rating of 3 stars Big Kokk
A superlative, if all-too-meager collection of the lush, luscious poetry of this obscure Tang era (9th century) poetess. Frank and succinct visions of love, futility, futility, and love abound. I can recommend very much so!
Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-28 00:00:00
1998was given a rating of 5 stars Robert Lance
The chatter of orioles breaks up my dream I put on a little makeup to change my tear-stained face a young moon shines through the bamboo shade the smooth river fumes  with late night mist swallows are bringing mud in their beaks to pack their nests bees are gathering pollen from open flowers I alone feel yearning without any limit reciting my own poems staring up through the pines ---- Imagine a small poem chanted a hundred times each word bringing new feelings sounding golden my thoughts have climbed the wall between our houses I gaze into the distance my heart's not made of stone the Milky Way looks expectant out there in the vastness Hunan's rivers are waking up the zither is fully tuned every April the Cold Food Festival leaves me a little homesick silent night, mellow wine don't make me pour it alone ---- Looking for ways to defeat the sadness of staying at an inn opening your love letter admiring the elegant strokes rain on Penglai Mountain makes the thousand peaks look small wind in the Xiegu Gorge blows thousands of leaves into autumn in the morning I read every word looking down upon jasper at night, curled in my quilt and bed I read it all again I should take out my sandalwood casket and stow it safely away but just for this moment, holding it, I can't seem to let it go. ---- Peach blossoms everywhere,  pink color of spring silver willows by every house moon-bright someone upstairs, trying on new clothes waiting for nightfall somebody else, alone in her bedroom drowning in tenderness the carp play around with the lotuses under the moon the sparrows call out to the rainbow at the horizon joys and sorrows, these are the dreams we have in this world why do they always come to us in pairs? ---- Several nights in this gorgeous pavilion and I began to have expectations until my darling surprised me he had to be off on a journey so I sleep alone and don't discuss the whereabouts of clouds around the lamp, now almost spent, one lost moth is circling ---- Pleading, unable to speak red tears, first one,  then a pair,  traveling down


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