Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State

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Engendering China

Women, Culture, and the State

Edited by: Christina K. Gilmartin , Gail Hershatter , Lisa Rofel and Tyrene White

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1994

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Harvard Contemporary China Series

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This first significant collection of essays on women in China in more than two decades captures a pivotal moment in a cross-cultural—and interdisciplinary—dialogue. For the first time, the voices of China-based scholars are heard alongside scholars positioned in the United States.

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Cultural Studies Cultural Theory Gender Theory

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel and Tyrene White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Beyond Family, Household, and Kinship
1. Learned Women in the Eighteenth Century Susan Mann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. From Daughter to Daughter-in-Law in the Women’s Script of Southern Hunan Cathy Silber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. Out of the Traditional Halls of Academe: Exploring New Avenues for Research on Women Chen Yiyun and S. Katherine Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4. China’s Modernization and Changes in the Social Status of Rural Women Gao Xiaoxian and S. Katherine Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
II Sex and the Social Order
5. Desire, Danger, and the Body: Stories of Women’s Virtue in Late Ming China Katherine Carlitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
6. Rethinking Van Gulik: Sexuality and Reproduction in Traditional Chinese Medicine Charlotte Furth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai Gail Hershatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8. Male Suffering and Male Desire: The Politics of Reading Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang Zhong Xueping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
III Where Liberation Lies
9. Gender, Political Culture, and Women’s Mobilization in the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, 1924–1927 Christina K. Gilmartin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
10. Liberation Nostalgia and a Yearning for Modernity Lisa Rofel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
11. The Origins of China’s Birth Planning Policy Tyrene White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
12. Chinese Women Workers: The Delicate Balance between Protection and Equality Margaret Y. K. Woo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
IV Becoming Women in the Post-Mao Era
13. Women’s Consciousness and Women’s Writing Li Ziyun and Zhu Hong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
14. Women, Illness, and Hospitalization: Images of Women in Contemporary Chinese Fiction Zhu Hong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
15. Politics and Protocols of Funü: (Un)Making National Woman Tani E. Barlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
16. Economic Reform and the Awakening of Chinese Women’s Collective Consciousness Li Xiaojiang and S. Katherine Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451

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April 8, 1994

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9780674272903

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470

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674272903

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