Gender and Chinese History

Beverly Bossler is professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of is Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity in China, 1000 1400 and Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and the State in Sung China (960 1279). Other contributors are Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Joan Judge, Guotong Li, Weijing Lu, Ann Waltner, Yan Wang, Ellen Widmer, and Yulian Wu.

Acknowledgments

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