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16 of the Best Books and Articles on: Women in China

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1.

Chinese Women through Chinese Eyes » Read Now
by Li Yu-ning. 251 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...generally deplorable situation of women in premodern China, and they welcome improvements...evaluate the condition of women in premodern China in the historical...
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Chinese Women Speak » Read Now
by Denyse Verschuur-Basse, Elizabeth Rauch-Nolan. 129 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

When Verschuur-Basse, a French sociologist specializing in the family, was invited by the Academy of Social Sciences to Beijing in 1985, she interviewed women from three generations and a variety of professions about their lives as women, wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law. Over a five-year period...
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When Verschuur-Basse, a French sociologist specializing in the family, was invited by the Academy of Social Sciences to Beijing in 1985, she interviewed women from three generations and a variety of professions about their lives as women, wives, mothers, and daughters-in-law. Over a five-year period she conducted in-depth, non-directed interviews with educated women who were able to analyze and interpret their lives in the context of important formative factors such as the Cultural Revolution, the one-child policy, and other social reforms. The difference between urban and rural expectations from women is particularly apparent in the life stories of the 13 women included in this book. The women voice common concerns as wives and mothers who work outside the home and comment on the prevalence of abortion and preference for male children, the increase in divorce rates, and the place of women as decision-makers in the family. Originally published in French as Paroles de Femmes Chinoises: La Famille Autrement (Harmattan, 1993), the study received critical acclaim from academy and media as a revealing portrayal of social reality in China.
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Images of Chinese Women: A Westerner's View » Read Now
by Bettina L. Knapp. 205 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
4.

Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China » Read Now
by Margery Wolf. 294 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China Revolution Postponed Women in Contemporary China MARGERY WOLF STANFORD...would like to thank the many women in China who...
5.

Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook » Read Now
by Hua R. Lan, Vanessa L. Fong. 240 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.
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Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals » Read Now
by Michael S. Duke. 276 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...about the comparative status of women in China vis-a-vis the contemporary situation...primarily fiction and essays, by women in China: You Mei and Qu Yuxiu...Wolf...
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Studying Chinese Women, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Phyllis Andors. 3 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...is most welcome. The first, Women in China , edited by Marilyn Young...Committee on Contemporary China Conference on Women in Chinese Society held in June...for women...
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Collectivization, Kinship, and the Status of Women in Rural China, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Norma Diamond. 8 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...marked improvements in the status of women in China since Liberation have attracted...reprinted in Marilyn Young , Women in China , Michigan Papers in Chinese...
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Guide to Women's Studies in China » Read Now
by Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Susan Mann, Lisa Rofel. 211 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives » Read Now
by Huping Ling. 254 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...economic conditions for Chinese women in China, and immigrants and immigration...of income for the ruling class in China. Women were not employed outside the...education...
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Women and Writing in Modern China » Read Now
by Wendy Larson. 280 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write, this book focuses on two concepts of great importance in Chinese literary modernization - the new, liberated woman and the new, autonomous writing. The author argues that in many modernizing countries...
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Analyzing the protracted cultural debate in modern China over what and how women should write, this book focuses on two concepts of great importance in Chinese literary modernization - the new, liberated woman and the new, autonomous writing. The author argues that in many modernizing countries traditional constrictions of women became a focus of struggle, and improvements in the treatment of women were considered a sign of national health. In China, however, the traditional emphasis on female virtue and male talent led to protests by women writers against the virtuous woman. Their writings emphasized not the modernizing virtues of equality in love and marriage, nor the mother as educator of a generation of nation-builders, but unconventional relationships and the refusal to marry.
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Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers » Read Now
by Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, Cecilia Milwertz, Red Chan. 323 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

In the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and...
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In the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a vital force to the present day. The political and social changes taking place in contemporary Chinese society have, surprisingly, received scant attention. This volume enriches our understanding of the working of grassroots democracy in China by exploring women's popular organizing activities and their interaction with party-state institutions. By subjecting these activities to both empirical enquiry and theoretical scrutiny, a rigorous analysis of the exchange, dialogue, negotiation and transformation among and within three groups of political actors - popular women's groups, religious groups and the All China Women's Federation - is concisely presented to the reader.This book will be of tremendous interest to students of Chinese Studies, Political Science and Gender Studies alike.
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Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's » Read Now
by Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter. 400 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting » Read Now
by Marsha Weidner. 348 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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Women of the Long March » Read Now
by Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Ellery Wiles. 336 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"The never before told story of the women on China's Long March, focusing on the lives of three women."
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Language, Women and Cultural Problems in China, in Women and Language » Read Now
by Yang Shu. 5 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library