Gender & Chinese history : transformative encounters / edited by Beverly Bossler.

Other author Bossler, Beverly Jo editor.
Format Book
PublicationSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
Descriptionxii, 266 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women--China. --Social conditions.
Women--China. --History.
Sex role--China. --History.

Variant title Gender and Chinese history
Contents Les noces chinoises: an eighteenth-century French representation of a Chinese wedding procession / Ann Waltner -- The control of female energies: gender and ethnicity on China's southeast coast / Guotong Li -- Collecting masculinity: merchants and gender performance in eighteenth-century China / Yulian Wu -- Writing love: the Heming ji by Wang Zhaoyuan and Hao Yixing / Weijing Lu -- Media-savvy gentlewomen of the 1870s and beyond / Ellen Widmer -- The fate of the late imperial "talented woman": gender and historical change in early twentieth-century China / Joan Judge -- Moving to Shanghai: urban women of means in the late Qing / Yan Wang -- The life of a slogan / Emily Honig -- Bad transmission / Gail Hershatter.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2014047603
ISBN9780295994703 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN0295994703 hardcover alkaline paper