List of Chinese women writers
The following is a list of Chinese women writers.
B
- Consort Ban scholar and poet
- Ban Zhao historian, polymath, author of Lessons for Women, one of the Four Books for Women
- Bao Junhui poet
- Bao Linghui poet
- Anni Baobei novelist
- Bing Xin fiction and children's writer
- Bu Feiyan novelist
C
- Cai Yan poet
- Cai Wan poet
- Cao Exiu Zaju actress and poet
- Cao Miaoqing poet, calligrapher, musician
- Chai Jingyi head of the Banana Garden Poets
- Chang Ch'ung-ho poet
- Eileen Chang novelist, essayist and screenwriter
- Chen Jingrong poet
- Chen Danyan biographer
- Chen Duansheng Tanci author
- Chen Xiaocui, poet, novelist, painter
- Chen Xiefen magazine editor
- Chen Xuezhao writer and commentator
- Chen Yuanyuan Geji
- Cheng Changwen poet and calligrapher
- Angelica Cheung fashion writer
D
- Dai Houying novelist
- Ding Ling fiction writer
- Dong Xiaowan Geji poet
- Duan Shuqing poet
F
- Fang Fang poet and novelist
- Fang Weiyi poet and historian of women writers
- Feng Yuanjun scholar
- Fu Shanxiang scholar
- Fu Tianlin poet
G
- Gao Yu journalist
- Gu Hengbo Gējì poet
- Gu Taiqing poet
- Guan Daosheng poet
- Guo Ai consort and poet
H
- Han Lanying scholar and writer
- Hao Jingfang novelist
- He Shuangqing lyric poet
- Hong Ying novelist and poet
- Ganggang Hu Guidice writer and artist
- Hü King Eng physician
- Hu Lanqi writer and military leader
- Huang Chonggu administrator, poet
- Huang E poet
- Madame Huarui poet
J
- Jiang Biwei memoirist
- Jiang Hui astronomer
- Jin Yi poet
K
L
- Li Pingxiang Gējì poet
- Li Qingzhao writer and poet
- Li Ye poet
- Liang Desheng poet and Tanci author
- Lin Huiyin architectural historian
- Lin Zongsu women's rights essayist
- Ling Shuhua modernist writer and painter
- Lin Xue landscape painter, poet, calligrapher
- Lin Yining one of the original Banana Garden Poets
- Liu Qingyun playwright
- Liu Rushi singer, poet and writer
- Liu Ying novelist
- Lü Bicheng poet and commentator
- Luo Luo novelist
- Lüqiu Luwei journalist
M
- Ma Shouzhen Geji poet and painter, also known as Ma Xianglan
- Mian Mian fiction writer
- Duchess Mu of Xu poet
N
- Niu Yingzhen poet
P
Q
- Qiu Jin poet, essayist and political writer
R
- Rao Xueman fiction writer, essayist and blogger
- Ru Zhijuan fiction writer
S
- Shangguan Wan'er poet and writer
- Shen Qing fashion writer
- Shen Rong fiction writer and essayist
- Shen Shanbao poet and writer
- Shu Ting poet
- Song Mingqiong poet
- Song Ruolun one of the five Song Sisters
- Song Ruoshen primary author of Analects for Women, one of the Four Books for Women
- Song Ruoxian secretary and record keeper for Emperor Jingzong
- Song Ruoxun one of the five Song Sisters
- Song Ruozhao poet, biographer, annotated her sister Ruoshen's Analects for Women
- Su Hui poet
- Su Qing essayist
- Su Xiaoxiao poet
- Su Xuelin author and scholar
T
- Tian Yuan singer-songwriter and novelist
- Tie Ning novelist and short story writer
W
- Wang Anyi fiction writer
- Wang Qinghui poet
- Wang Wei poet
- Wang Xufeng writer on tea and novelist
- Wang Yun poet and playwright
- Yun Wang poet and cosmologist
- Woeser blogger, poet and essayist
- Wu Chuntao social writer
- Wu Zao poet
- Wu Zetian empress-regnant, poet and calligrapher
- Madame Wu cookbook writer
X
- Xi Xi novelist and poet
- Xia Jia science fiction and fantasy writer
- Xiao Hong fiction writer and essayist
- Xie Bingying autobiographer
- Xie Daoyun poet and scholar
- Xin Fengxia actress, author, artist
- Xinran non-fiction writer
- Empress Xu author of Domestic Lessons, one of the Four Books for Women
- Xu Hui poet
- Xu Kun postmodern fiction writer
- Xu Yuan poet
- Xu Zihua poet
- Xue Susu poet
- Xue Tao poet
Y
- Yang Erche Namu social writer
- Yang Gang journalist, novelist and translator
- Yang Hongying children's fiction writer
- Yang Jiang playwright, author and translator
- Ting-Xing Ye author of young adult novels
- Ye Yingchun commentator
- Chia-ying Yeh poet and scholar
- Lizzie Yu Der Ling, writer of several memoirs
- Nellie Yu Roung Ling, author of a memoir and a novella
- Yu Xuanji poet
- Yun Zhu poet, painter, moralist
Z
- Zeng Baosun historian
- Zhai Yongming poet
- Zhang Haidi writer and translator
- Zhang Huaicun novelist, poet and children's writer
- Zhang Jie fiction writer
- Zhang Kangkang fiction writer
- Lijia Zhang commentator and public speaker
- Zhang Ling fiction writer
- Zhang Xinxin biographer and fiction writer
- Zhang Yaotiao poet
- Zhang Yueran fiction writer
- Empress Zhangsun essayist
- Zhao Luanluan poet
- Zhao Luorui poet and translator
- Zheng Min scholar and poet
- Zheng Yunduan poet
- Zheng Xiaoqiong poet and writer
- Yilin Zhong fiction writer and poet
- Zhou Weihui novelist
- Zhu Lin novelist
- Zhu Shuzhen poet
- Zhuo Wenjun poet
- Zong Pu writer and scholar
- Zuo Fen poet