11. The Origins of China’s Birth Planning Policy

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I Beyond Family, Household, and Kinship
6. 1. Learned Women in the Eighteenth Century 25
7. 2. From Daughter to Daughter-in-Law in the Women’s Script of Southern Hunan 47
8. 3. Out of the Traditional Halls of Academe: Exploring New Avenues for Research on Women 69
9. 4. China’s Modernization and Changes in the Social Status of Rural Women 80
10. II Sex and the Social Order
11. 5. Desire, Danger, and the Body: Stories of Women’s Virtue in Late Ming China 99
12. 6. Rethinking Van Gulik: Sexuality and Reproduction in Traditional Chinese Medicine 125
13. 7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai 147
14. 8. Male Suffering and Male Desire: The Politics of Reading Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang 175
15. III Where Liberation Lies
16. 9. Gender, Political Culture, and Women’s Mobilization in the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, 1924–1927 193
17. 10. Liberation Nostalgia and a Yearning for Modernity 226
18. 11. The Origins of China’s Birth Planning Policy 250
19. 12. Chinese Women Workers: The Delicate Balance between Protection and Equality 279
20. IV Becoming Women in the Post-Mao Era
21. 13. Women’s Consciousness and Women’s Writing 297
22. 14. Women, Illness, and Hospitalization: Images of Women in Contemporary Chinese Fiction 318
23. 15. Politics and Protocols of Funü: (Un)Making National Woman 339
24. 16. Economic Reform and the Awakening of Chinese Women’s Collective Consciousness 360
25. Notes 385
26. Contributors 451