Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This anthology sets a new benchmark for the creative and rigorous use of a broad range of sources to extend the scope of gender-focused enquiry in Chinese late imperial history. It will be read with benefit by students and scholars of comparative modernities, comparative gender issues, as well as Chinese social and political history."
-- Anne E. McLaren * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *
"This collection of groundbreaking essays delivers enough inspiration not only for expanding gender-related historic studies in new directions, but also for questioning some of the well-established assumptions within the academic field, as well as popular gender stereotypes."
-- Justyna Jaguścik * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques *
"Insightful and provoocative . . . This edited volume is an enlightening and delightful reading for a wide range of scholars."
-- Yu Zhang * New Books Asia *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Terminology
Chronology
Introduction
Part One: Early Modern Evolutions
1. Les Noces Chinoises / Ann Waltner
2. The Control of Female Energies / Guotong Li
3. Collecting Masculinity / Yulian Wu
4. Writing Love / Weijing Lu
Part Two: “Cloistered Ladies” to New Women
5. “Media-Savvy” Gentlewomen of the 1870’s and Beyond / Ellen Widmer
6. The Fate of the Late Imperial “Talented Woman” / Joan Judge
7. Moving to Shanghai / Yan Wang
Part Three: Radicalism and Ruptures
8. The Life of a Slogan / Emily Honig
9. Bad Transmission / Gail Hershatter
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
