This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.
This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by ...
This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Shanghai urban life, entering the historical record whenever others wanted to appreciate, castigate, count, regulate, cure, pathologize, warn about, rescue, eliminate, or deploy them as a symbol in a larger social panorama. Over the past century, prostitution has been understood in many ways: as...
This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of t...
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. The distinguished contributors to this volume are of different generations, hold citizenship in different countries, and were trained in different disciplines, but all embrace the shared project of mapping gender in China and making power-laden relationships visible. The essays take up gender issues from a...
This first significant collection of essays on women in China in more than two decades captures a pivotal moment in a cross-cultural--and interdisc...
Dramatic and far-reaching changes have occurred in the lives of Chinese women in the years since the death of Mao and the fall of the Gang of Four During the decade of the Cultural Revolution, attention to personal life was regarded as 'bourgeois'; in the post-Mao decade, abrupt turns in public policy made discussion of personal life imperative, and nowhere has this been more evident than in the debate about the role of women in Chinese society. This book is based on extensive personal viewing of urban women and study of contemporary literature and articles in the periodical press that...
Dramatic and far-reaching changes have occurred in the lives of Chinese women in the years since the death of Mao and the fall of the Gang of Four Dur...
This is the story of the workers of Tianjin (Tientsin) and how, in the first half of the 20th century, they helped shape Tianjin's identity as the major industrial centre of North China. This text should be of interest to students of the period covered, and also to those students of Communist China who wish to understand the antecedents of China's current urban society and trace the roots of powerful continuities. The book offers a wealth of detail on material life, forms of entertainment, local festivals and individual rites of passage and makes use of studies of the local economy carried...
This is the story of the workers of Tianjin (Tientsin) and how, in the first half of the 20th century, they helped shape Tianjin's identity as the maj...
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized grouprural womenat the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parentingeven their notions of virtue and respectability. The...
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized grouprural womenat the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hersh...
This deeply knowledgeable text illuminates the places where the Big History of China's last two centuries intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender as its analytic lens. Based on formidable scholarship, Gail Hershatter's beautifully written book will be essential reading for all students of China's modern history.
This deeply knowledgeable text illuminates the places where the Big History of China's last two centuries intersects with the daily lives of ordinary ...
