Introduction
Chapter 1 Woman as Writers in the Song Dynasty
Courtesans as Poets
Literati Women as Poets
Poets of Repute
Chapter 2 Writing and Struggle for Acceptance
Li Qingzhao on Reading and Writing
The Early Critics on Li Qingzhao
Li Qingzhao's Shi Poetry and the Masculine Mode
"On Song Lyrics"
Chapter 3 Song Lyrics Preliminaries
The Authenticity Question
The Autobiographical Reading Problem
Why Are Women Poets Read That Way?
Why Did Zhao Mingcheng Not Send Letters Home to Li Qingzhao?
Chapter 4 Widowhood, Remarriage, Divorce
Fleeing the Jurchen and the Death of Zhao Mingcheng
Remarriage and Divorce
Larger Issues
Chapter 5 Writings from the Aftermath
Poems Addressed to Emissaries
Writings on Capture the Horse
Chapter 6 The "Afterword"
Looking beyond the Text
Other Aims and Considerations
Chapter 7 The Beginnings of "Li Qingzhao": Reception during the Southern Song and Yuan
The Misery of Her Later Years
Devotion to Zhao Mingcheng
Stories in the Unofficial Biography
The Epitome of the Lonely Woman
In Early Anthologies
Chapter 8 Saving the Widow, Denying the Remarriage: Reception during the Ming and Qing
The Ming-Qing Rise of Women's Writing
The Iconic Woman Poet
Wang Shizhen's Matching Song Lyrics
The Multitalented Woman, "Genuine" Words
The Remarriage of Widows, Yuan through Qing
Moral Condemnation of Li Qingzhao
Disbelief and Exasperation
Denying the Remarriage
The Reconstituted Li Qingzhao in the Late Qing
Chapter 9 Modernism, Revisionism, Feminism: Reception in Modern Times
May Forth Period Histories of Chinese Literature
The Remarriage Controversy, 1957-2010
The Concubine or Other Woman Question
Chapter 10 Song Lyrics, Part I
Rewriting Earlier Lines
The Outdoors
A Peculiar Mood
Women in Song Lyrics by Male Writers
Chapter 11 Song Lyrics, Part2
Songs of Flirtatiousness
Other Late Attributions
Contours of Affection and Preconceptions
Conclusion
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