Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface with List of Contributors xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Emily Georgiana Kemp An Early Twentieth-Century Traveler’s Perspective on the Heart-Mind of China 11
8. Women’s Agency at the Close of Ming Dynasty China Vulnerability, Violation, and Vengeance in Ling Mengchu’s Vernacular Short Stories 43
9. A Flight of Cultural Imagination in Heian Japan The Image of Yang Guifei in Genji monogatari and “Chang hen ge” 65
10. Women Generals and Martial Maidens China’s Warrior Women in History, Literature, and Film 89
11. Women in Male Roles Cross-Dressed Actresses in Early Twentieth-Century China 111
12. Pavilion of Women Gender Politics and Global Cultural Translatability 137
13. Gendered Screens Women, Space, and Social Transformation in the Works of Contemporary Chinese Female Filmmakers 157
14. Women in Chinese Visual Art over the Past Century 179
15. “Lessons for Women” From The Good Earth to Leftover Women 215
16. Index 261