Secondary literature

• academic books

Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Tufts JumboSearch – women weaving China (exlibrisgroup.com)

Chen, Buyun. Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China on JSTOR (tufts.edu)

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. (Chapter 7 might be useful)

Mann, Susan. Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997. [Chapter 6 might be useful]

Kuhn, Dieter, Juanjuan. Chen, Nengfu. Huang, Wenying. Li, Hao. Peng, and Feng Zhao. Chinese Silks. Edited by Dieter Kuhn and Feng Zhao. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Zhao, Feng. The Art History of Silk in China 中国丝绸艺术史.

• academic journal articles

Bossen, Laurel, Wang Xurui, Melissa J. Brown, and Hill Gates. “Feet and Fabrication: Footbinding and Early Twentieth-Century Rural Women’s Labor in Shaanxi.” Modern China 37, no. 4 (2011): 347–383.

E. Jane Burns. “Women and Silk: Remapping the Silk Routes from China to France.” In Sea of Silk, 15–. University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc, 2014.

Flamm, Mikel, and Windy Xie. “The Strength of: Rural Women in China; The Role of Women in China in Such Activities as Caring for the Family, Raising Poultry and Livestock, Weaving, Etc., Used to Be Behind the Scenes. Men Tended the Fields, Made Decisions Relating to Daily Life and Rarely Consulted Their Female Partners on Business Matters.” UN Chronicle 43, no. 2 (2006): 21–.

Holm, David. “Filial Piety and Its Divine Rewards: The Legend of Dong Yong and Weaving Maiden with Related Texts.” Nan nü : men, women, and gender in early and Imperial China 13, no. 1 (2011): 149–152.