Analysis and Comments on Zhang Wei’s Anthology of Women’s Articles of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties

张维《汉魏六朝女子文选》选编旨趣析论

In the third year of Xuantong era (1911) in Qing dynasty, Zhang Wei, a female anthologist, who was born in a cultural family in Haiyan, Zhejiang Province, finished the compiling of Anthology of Women’s Articles of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. This anthology remedied the deficiency that before its publication, the anthologies of female literary works seldom focused on the historical period of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. This anthology uses “women” (Nü Zi) to describe female litterateurs, rather than “female celebrities”, “family ladies”, “chamber ladies” which were consistently used by anthologist in Ming and Qing dynasties. It reflects Zhang Wei’s attempts to equate female and male and her pursuance of gender equality. Zhang Wei divided the selected female literary works into two general groups depends on whether a work was composed with rhyme. Afterwards, she put those works into 22 small categories, which made the anthology came out with a precise layout and appropriate classifications. Those female litterateurs in this anthology possessed diverse identities. They got achievements in politics or academics. This anthology also selected some special works, which are about female litterateurs’ views on the same gender, these articles reflects the valuable opinions of female characters and individualities by female litterateurs of Han, Wei and Six dynasties.

清宣统三年（1911），出身浙江海盐文化世家的女性选家张维编成《汉魏六朝女子文选》。是部选本弥补了此前女性文学选本较少着眼于汉魏六朝的缺憾。张维以“女子”一词描述女性文学家，而不沿袭明清选家常用之“名媛”、“闺阁”、“闺秀”等称谓，体现出张维力图以女性与男性並置，追求性别平等的动机。张维将所选汉魏六朝女性文学作品分为有韵、无韵两大类，继而又细分出二十二小类，体例严谨，分类精当。《汉魏六朝女子文选》所选女性角色多元，于政治、治学诸多领域皆有建树。是部选本亦选钞了不少汉魏六朝女性观照女性之作，呈现出彼时女性论述女性人格与品质的诸多真知灼见。