The wonderful world of women warriors, grannies, geishas, femmes fatales, lionesses, shrews and mooncake vixens…

Victoria Cass, Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming
http://victoriacass.com/

Anne McLaren, The Chinese Femme Fatale: Stories from the Ming Period
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-1574-9780646149240.aspx

Yenna Wu, The Lioness Roars: Shrew Stories from Late Imperial China
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-6816-9781885445810.aspx

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
http://redroom.com/member/maxine-hong-kingston/blog

Marilyn Chin, The Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
http://www.marilynchin.org/