Abstract
Li Qingzhao was born into a family with a history of official service and of literary accomplishment. Her father, Li Gefei 李格非 (ca. 1045ca. 1105), was a respected literatus who was on the periphery of the circle of the great Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101), and thus had social connections with several of Su Shi's friends. One of those literati, Zhao Buzhi 趙 補之 (1053-1110) is said to have noticed the literary talent of Gefei's daughter, Li Qingzhao, at an early age, and remarked about it several times to other literary gentlemen of the time. The girl was not only talented as a poet but also evidently headstrong and fiercely competitive. At the tender age of seventeen, she seems to have written two lengthy poems on the historical theme of a seventh-century stone inscription commemorating the "restoration" of the Tang dynasty upon the imperial defeat of the An Lushan 安祿山 rebellion that tried to topple it. Although this was a well-
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