- Acknowledgments
- Introduction [Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White]
- I. Beyond Family, Household, and Kinship
- 1. Learned Women in the Eighteenth Century [Susan Mann]
- 2. From Daughter to Daughter-in-Law in the Women’s Script of Southern Hunan [Cathy Silber]
- 3. Out of the Traditional Halls of Academe: Exploring New Avenues for Research on Women [Chen Yiyun, translated by S. Katherine Campbell]
- 4. China’s Modernization and Changes in the Social Status of Rural Women [Gao Xiaoxian, translated by S. Katherine Campbell]
- II. Sex and the Social Order
- 5. Desire, Danger, and the Body: Stories of Women’s Virtue in Late Ming China [Katherine Carlitz]
- 6. Rethinking Van Gulik: Sexuality and Reproduction in Traditional Chinese Medicine [Charlotte Furth]
- 7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai [Gail Hershatter]
- 8. Male Suffering and Male Desire: The Politics of Reading Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang [Zhong Xueping]
- III. Where Liberation Lies
- 9. Gender, Political Culture, and Women’s Mobilization in the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, 1924–1927 [Christina K. Gilmartin]
- 10. Liberation Nostalgia and a Yearning for Modernity [Lisa Rofel]
- 11. The Origins of China’s Birth Planning Policy [Tyrene White]
- 12. Chinese Women Workers: The Delicate Balance between Protection and Equality [Margaret Y. K. Woo]
- IV. Becoming Women in the Post-Mao Era
- 13. Women’s Consciousness and Women’s Writing [Li Ziyun, translated by Zhu Hong]
- 14. Women, Illness, and Hospitalization: Images of Women in Contemporary Chinese Fiction [Zhu Hong]
- 15. Politics and Protocols of Funü: (Un)Making National Woman [Tani E. Barlow]
- 16. Economic Reform and the Awakening of Chinese Women’s Collective Consciousness [Li Xiaojiang, translated by S. Katherine Campbell]
- Notes
- Contributors
HARVARD CONTEMPORARY CHINA SERIES
Harvard Contemporary China Series 10
Engendering China
Women, Culture, and the State
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Publication Date: 04/08/1994
470 pages
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