 
Xiaoxuan Li is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of East Asian Studies, specializing in women authors of early modern China (late 16th to early 18th century).
Her dissertation, “Resentment in Daydreams: Social Navigation through Authorship and Female Literary Curation in the Ye Family of the Late Ming,” shows how Shen Yixiu (1590-1635) and other Ye family women used literature to move beyond the domestic sphere and actively participate in the formation of late Ming gentry society.
