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22: 263:). She had five children—three sons and two daughters. Yihui also had children with his primary wife, who died early. Gu's life was thrown into turmoil when her husband died in 1838. Yihui's family forced her and her children out of their Beijing home. The reasons for their hostility are unclear, but a rumored affair between Gu Taiqing and Gong Zichen may have been part of the story. During this period of poverty she may have sustained her family by selling jewelry and artwork. 132: 336:. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006, pp.187-88 discusses various versions of the story of Gu's family background. Wang Yanning asserts quite clearly that Gu was from a Manchu family. See Wang Yanning "A Manchu Female Poet's Oneiric and Poetic Worlds: Gu Taiqing's (1799-1877) Dream Poems," 251:
descent. It had been claimed that she was born into a banner family named Gu and took on Manchu identity after her marriage to Aisin-Gioro Yihui 奕会 (1799-1838), a Manchu prince. Other scholars claim that the confusion about her identity is an attempt to obscure her family's descent from
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Gu Taiqing's poems exist in a number of modern editions. Translations of individual poems have been made by Ellen Widmer; David McCraw, Grace S. Fong and Irving Yucheng Lo; Yanning Wang; and Wilt Idema and Beata Grant.
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Her marriage to Yihui seems to have been a happy one, despite the fact that she had the status of concubine rather than primary princess consort (Yihui's princess consort was Lady
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edited by Wilt Idema and Beata Grant. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard East Asia Monographs, 2004, pp.630-652. This section also includes a brief excerpt from her sequel to
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Jennifer Chow. "Sequels to honglou meng : how Gu Taiqing continues the story in Honglou meng ying."  PhD dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2012.
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Natasha Jennifer Chow, "Sequels to Honglou meng: How Gu Taiqing Continues the Story in Honglou meng ying," M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012, p.3.
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She was descended from Manchu family from the Silin-Gioro (西林覺羅 Xilin Jueluo) clan. There had been some debate as to whether or not she was of
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Beata Grant, "The Poetess and the Precept Master: A Selection of Daoist Poems by Gu Taiqing" in M. van Crevil, T.Y. Tan and M.Hockx, (eds.)
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Geng Changqin, "Mirror, Dream and Shadow: Gu Taiqing's Life and Writings" PhD dissertation, University of Hawai'i 2012.
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Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Knowledge article at ]; see its history for attribution.
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Wang Yanning, "A Manchu Female Poet's Oneiric and Poetic Worlds: Gu Taiqing's (1799-1877) Dream Poems,"
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Wang Yanning "A Manchu Female Poet's Oneiric and Poetic Worlds: Gu Taiqing's (1799-1877) Dream Poems,"
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edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999, pp.589-600.
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Ellen Widmer, "Honglou Meng Sequels and their Female Readerships in Nineteenth-Century China" in
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Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema
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Lexington Books, 2014, chapter 4 "A Manchu Woman's Short Excursions." pp.115-145,
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After the death of her husband, Gu's circle of female friends, including the
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Chinese text of some of her poems at the Ming-Qing Women's Writings database
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edited by Martin Huang. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004, p.118.
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Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism,
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The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction on Nineteenth-Century China
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The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction on Nineteenth-Century China
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The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction on Nineteenth-Century China
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Reverie and Reality: Poetry on Travel by Late Imperial Chinese Women,
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Snakes' Kegs: Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings and Chinese Fiction,
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