The club explores the life of Li Qingzhao, the most celebrated female poet in Chinese history. Over ten lessons, they build the socio-historical scaffolding of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties. They trace her life from the rare, joyful intellectual partnership of her early marriage, through the cataclysmic Jin invasion that destroyed her world, to the staggering architectural sorrow of 'Sheng Sheng Man'. Finally, they confront the tragic loss of her manuscripts, recognizing the gendered fragility of the historical archive.