Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of ReformIn 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino Japanese War. The Hundred Day's Reform has received a great deal of attention from historians who have focused on the well known male historical actors, but until now the Qing women reformers have received almost no consideration. In this book, historian Nanxiu