Gender and Chinese History : Transformative Encounters.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology -- Chronology -- Introduction -- PART ONE: EARLY MODERN EVOLUTIONS -- CHAPTER ONE: Les Noces chinoises: An Eighteenth-Century French Representation of a Chinese Wedding Procession -- CHAPTER TWO: The Control of Female Energies: Gender and Ethnicity on China's Southeast Coast -- CHAPTER THREE: Collecting Masculinity: Merchants and Gender Performance in Eighteenth-Century China -- CHAPTER FOUR: Writing Love: The Heming ji by Wang Zhaoyuan and Hao Yixing -- PART TWO: "CLOISTERED LADIES" TO NEW WOMEN -- CHAPTER FIVE: "Media-Savvy" Gentlewomen of the 1870s and Beyond -- CHAPTER SIX: The Fate of the Late Imperial "Talented Woman": Gender and Historical Change in Early-Twentieth-Century China -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Moving to Shanghai: Urban Women of Means in the Late Qing -- PART THREE: RADICALISM AND RUPTURES -- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Life of a Slogan -- CHAPTER NINE: Bad Transmission -- Glossary of Chinese Characters -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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