关键词: 女性诗词, 明末清初, 英国女性情爱小说, 精神分析

Abstract: Nowadays women's writings in Ming and Qing still has its academiccurrency. This article comments upon current studies in women's poetry from late Ming to early Qing in North America and puts forward some research methods. The sinological circle in North America points out that the western concept of “feminine” cannot fit in with the Chinese context. Scholars emphasize that women's writings should be put within their contemporary historical and political contexts in order to understand how the female subject was established within the masculine discourse and the related issues such as the female author's notion of gender identity and her strategies in self-fashioning. This emphasis on historicizing helps to dig further into those neglected details in women's texts and to draw out their meanings, so that a multi-dimensional writing history, which contains personal experiences and feelings beneath the official level. This project is also related to the construction of Chinese feminism. Also, this research trend is very similar with that in the studies of early women's writings in Britain; and some methods, which are frequently used in analyzing the British texts and seem to be far away from the Chinese context, such as psychoanalysis, can be adopted in analyzing female idertity in Chinese texts, so as to show that the notion of femininity in Chinese women's texts is not natural or coincidental, rather it is the result of the textual creation by the subject.

Key words: women's poetry, late Ming and early Qing, British women's amatory fiction, psychoanalysis