Alternate Title
明清婦女著作
Category
Classical Texts
Institution
Academia Sinica
Access
open access
URL
https://mhdb.mh.sinica.edu.tw/mingqing/mqww/
Description
Ming Qing Women's Writings (明清婦女著作) is a digital archive and database dedicated to the digitization and documentation of writings by women in late imperial China (1368–1911), originally launched at McGill University in 2005 and now hosted and maintained by Academia Sinica (updated October 2025). Close to 5,000 collections of poetry and writings by individual women are recorded for the Ming and Qing periods, though less than a quarter have survived. Each writer entry links to the China Biographical Database hosted at Harvard University. Digital assets were provided by partner libraries including Harvard-Yenching Library, Peking University Library, Sun Yat-sen University Library, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
Tags
Late Imperial (1368–1912) Gender Literature Biography Full-text
Last Modified
5/13/2026 5:00pm