Gendered subjectivity and representing interiority. Subjectivity and authorship : women poets, erotic personae, and female subjectivity -- Women painters and images of women -- Cross-dressing and authenticity -- Pictorial representations of inner feelings -- Modes of representing emotion in figure painting -- Melding of feeling and scene -- Interiority and the inner quarters -- Courtly and literati audiences : evidence from commentaries -- Political interpretations of desire. Handscrolls of Goddess of the Luo River -- Compositions of the Song Dynasty paintings -- Reading desire and rejection -- The Beijing handscroll Night revels of Han Xizai -- Singing girls in Tang and Song texts -- Content of the Beijing Scroll -- Early assessments of Han Xizai's character -- Political interpretations of Night revels -- Night revels and pictorial cross-dressing -- Male audience and authorship : projecting desire and longing onto the female figure. Huizong's Court ladies preparing newly woven silk -- Pounding silk and women's work -- Zhang Xuan's painting and Huizong's copy -- Mou Yi's Pounding cloth -- Visualizing a palace-style poem -- Text and interpretation -- The Female Audience : Modeling Idealized Femininity. Women and fan paintings -- Acquiring fans painted with lonely women -- The enclosed garden -- Mirrors, makeup, interiority, and performing femininity -- Ladies adorning their hair with flowers : a bed-screen?