First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Examines the migratory histories of Chinese women born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, who are now inhabitants of various diaspora Chinese communities.

Nine essays examine the women's movement, feminist politicians, and feminist civil servants as the three primary sets of actors in women's collective political struggles to make their voices heard and place their issues on the public agenda. They discuss the global institutional framework then cite

Seeking to extend existing scholarship on gender and colonialism and on women and American religion, this cross-cultural study examines the work of American missionary women in South Asia at several levels. A primary concern of the study is to historicize the interventions of these women and situate them within the dual contexts of the sending society and the receiving culture. It focuses on missionaries Isabella Thoburn and Ida Scudder, who founded some of the premier women's colleges and hospitals in British colonial India. The book also draws upon the narratives and reminiscences of South...

The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor, journalist, historian, poet, choreographer, film scholar, tai-chi expert, translator, writer, literary...