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Ahern, Emily M. "Affines and the Rituals of Kinship," Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society. ed. Arthur P. Wolf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974.

 

Ahern, Emily M. "Power and Pollution of Chinese Women."  in Wolf and  Witke, op. cit. 1975.

 

Ahern, Emily M. "Gender and Ideological Differences in Representations of Life and Death." Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China.eds. James L. Watson and Evelyn S. Rawski. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1988

 

Allione, Tsultrim. Women of wisdom. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated, 2000.

 

Andors, Phyllis. The unfinished liberation of Chinese women, 1949-1980. Ann Arbor, MI: Books on Demand. N/A

 

Andors, Phyllis. The Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women, 1949-1980. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

 

Ayscough, Florence. Chinese women: yesterday and today New York: Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 1975.

 

 

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Bao, Xiaolan. "Integrating Women into Chinese History: Reflections on Historical Scholarship on Women in China." Chinese Historian 3.2, 1990.

 

Barlow, Tani, ed. Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism. Duke Univ. Press, 1993.

 

Barr, Allan. "Disarming Intruders: Alien Women in Liaozhai Zhiyi." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 49:501-18, 1989.

 

Beahan, Charlotte L. "Feminism and Nationalism in Chinese Women's Press, 1902-1922," Modern China 1:376-416, 1975.

 

Bernhardt, Kathryn. Women and Property in China, 960-1949 Law, Society, and Culture in China Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

 

Besio, Kimberly. "In a Woman's Voice: Portrayals of Heroism in Two Zaju on Three Kingdoms' Themes." Ming Studies 32:7-19, 1994.

 

Bingham, Marjorie W.; Gross, Susan H. Women in modern China. Saint Paul, MN: Upper Midwest Women's History Center, 1980.

 

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Twentieth Century. (ed. Lee, Lily Xiao Hong). Armonk: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 2002.

 

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911, Vol. I. (ed. Lee, Lily X.). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women Series, Vol. 1. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 1998.

 

Birge, Bettine. Women and property in Sung dynasty China (960-1279): Neo -Confucianism and social change in Chien-chou, Fukien. Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Columbia University. New York: Columbia University, 1992.

 

Born of the same roots: stories of modern Chinese women. (ed. Hsu, Vivian Ling). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1981.

 

Bossen, Laurel Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated 2002.

 

Bray, Francesca. Technology and gender: Fabrics of power in late imperial China. A Philip E. Lilienthal Book. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

 

Bridge to China. San Francisco, CA: China Books & Periodicals, Incorporated, 1980.

 

Bridgman, Eliza J. Gillett.  Daughters of China: Or sketches of domestic life in the Celestial Empire. Salem: Higginson Book Company, 2000.

 

Broyelle, Claudie. Women's liberation in China. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, Incorporated, 1977.

 

Building Women's Studies Curriculum in China. Women's Studies in Asia: Knowledge Exchange, Theory and Practice (1997-2000), Country Level Workshop. A Country Report Submitted to the Korean Women's Institute & The Asian Center for Women's Studies, Ewha Womans University, and The United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, pp. 175-221, 1999.

 

 

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Cass, Victoria. Dangerous Women, Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.

 

Chang, Jung. Wild Swans:  three daughters of China. New York: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated, 1996.

 

Chang, Jung. Wild swans: three daughters of China.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 

 

Chang, Kang-I Sung; Saussy, Haun; Kwong, Charles Y. Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry & Criticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

 

Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha. Bound feet and western dress: a memoir. New York: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated, 1996.

 

Chao, Paul. Women under communism: family in Russia and China. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Incorporated, 1977.

 

Chen, Yiyun. "Out of the Traditional Halls of Academe: Exploring New Avenues for Research on Women," in Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State. Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White, eds. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, pp. 69-79, 1994

 

Chen, Yu-Hua. The impact of socioeconomic development on women's status in the family: Similarities and differences between China and Taiwan. Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Pennsylvania State University, 2000. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 2000.

 

Cheng, Nien. Life and death in Shanghai. New York: Random House, Incorporated, 1987.

 

Cheung, Fanny. Gender and society in Hong Kong: A statistical profile. (Co-authored with R. Westwood and T. Mehrain) HK Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Research Monograph No. 23. Hong Kong: HKIAPS, 1995.

 

Cheung, Fanny. Engendering Hong Kong society: A gender perspective of women's status. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. 1997.

 

Cheung, Fanny, ed. Gender studies in Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. (Co-edited with H.M. Yip and P.L. Kwok. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press (In Chinese), 1995.

 

Chiang, William W. We Two Know the Script: We Have Become Good Friends: Linguistic and Social Aspects of The Women's Script Literacy in Southern Hunan. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995

 

China Education Translation Project Staff. Women and education in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. (contr. Altbach, Philip G.). Buffalo, NY: State University of New York at Buffalo, GSE Publications, 1990.

 

Chinese women in the Great Leap Forward. Reprint of Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1960. New York: A M S Press, Incorporated, N/A

 

Chinese Women in the Imperial Past: New Perspectives. (ed. Zurndorfer, Harriet T.). Sinica Leidensia Series, 44. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 1999.

 

Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers. (ed. Hsiung, Ping-Chun). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women Series, Vol. 23. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2002.

 

Chinese women through Chinese eyes. (ed. Li, Yu-Ning). Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 1992.

 

Chinese women traversing diaspora: Memoirs, essays and poetry. (ed. Hom, Sharon K.). Gender, Culture, & Global Politics Series, Vol. 3. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999.

 

Choi, Sheena. Gender, Ethnicity and Market Forces: Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea. East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001.

 

Chow, Rey. Primitive passions: visuality, sexuality, ethnograhy and contemporary Chinese cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

 

Chow, Rey. Woman and Chinese modernity: the politics of reading between West and East. Theory and History of Literature; Vol. 75. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

 

Chunde, Yan. Half the sky. San Francisco, CA: China Books & Periodicals, Incorporated, 1985.

 

Chung, Priscilla Ching. Palace women in the Northern Sung, 960-1126. Leiden: Brill, 1981.

Cole, R. Alan. Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

 

Croll, Elisabeth J. Feminism and socialism in China. New York: Routledge, 1978. 

 

Croll, Elisabeth. Changing identities of Chinese women: rhetoric, experience and self-perception in twentieth-century China. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, Incorporated, 1995.

 

Croll, Elisabeth.  Feminism and socialism in China.  New York: Schocken Books, Incorporated, 1980.

 

Croll, Elisabeth. Wise daughters from foreign lands: european women writers in China. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated, 1989.

 

Croll, Elisabeth. From heaven to earth: images and experiences of development in China. New York: Routledge, 1993.

 

Croll, Elisabeth. The politics of marriage in contemporary China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

 

Croll, Elisabeth. Chinese women since Mao. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 1984.

 

Croll, Elizabeth. Women and rural development in China: production and reproduction. Washington, DC: International Labour Office, 1985.

 

Crook, Isabel, Liu Dongxiao, and Lisa Stearns, participants. "A Conversation With Wu Qing." in Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide. Alida Brill, ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. Pp. 41-57.

 

Curtin, Katie. Women in China. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1975.

 

Cusack, Dymphna. Chinese women speak. North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square, 1986.

 

Cutter, Robert Joe.; Shou, Chen; Songzhi, Pei; Crowell, William G. Empresses and consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's commentary. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

 

 

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Davin, Delia. Woman-work: women and the party in revolutionary China. New York: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1980.

 

Diamant, Neil Jeffrey. Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love & Divorce in Urban & Rural China, 1949-1968. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

 

Dikotter, Frank. Sex, culture, and modernity in China. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 1995.

 

Ding, Xiaoqi. "Feminism in China," in Asian Studies Review. V. 15 N. 1, p. 111-113, 1991.

 

Dong, Jinxia. "Women, Sport and Society in Modern China: Holding up More Than Half the Sky" Sport in the Global Society Series, No. 30. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2002.

 

Dooling, Amy D. and Kristina M. Torgeson, ed. Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Literature by Chinese Women from the Early Twentieth-Century. 1997.

 

Du, Fangquin. "My Way into Women's Studies." Asian Journal of Women's Studies, V.3, No.1, p. 133, 1997

 

Dunayevskaya, Raya. Sexism, politics and revolution in Mao's China. Chicago, IL: News & Letters Committees, 1977.

 

 

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Ebrey, Patricia B. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. (contr. Liu Kwang-Ching). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

 

Ebrey, Patricia B. Confucianism and family rituals in imperial China: a social history of writing about rites. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

 

Ebrey, Patricia B. The inner quarters: marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung Period. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.

 

Edwards, Louise P. "Men and women in Qing China: Gender in the Red Chamber Dream." Sinica Leidensia Series, Vol. 31. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.

 

Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State. (eds. Gilmartin, Christina K.; Hershatter, Gail; Rofel, Lisa; White, Tyrene). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

 

Engendering Hong Kong Society: A Gender Perspective of Women's Status. (ed. Cheung, Fanny M.). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1997.

 

Entwisle, Barbara.; Henderson, Gail, Re-drawing boundaries: Work, household, and gender in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

 

Epstein, Maram. "Competing Discourses." East Asian Monographs Series, Vol. 197. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

 

Eunson, Roby. The Soong Sisters. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts Incorporated, 1975.

 

Evans, Harriet. Women and sexuality in China: 1949 to the present. New York: Continuum Publishing Company, 1996.

 

 

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Fan, Hong. Footbinding, Feminism, and Freedom: The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China. Frank Cass and Co., 1997.

 

Fang Fang. Contemporary Chinese women writers. Vol. 2. San Francisco, CA: China Books & Periodicals, Incorporated, 1991.

 

Ferguson, Ann. "Two Women's Studies Conferences in China: Report by an American Feminist Philosopher," Asian Journal of Women's Studies, V.3, N.1, p. 161, 1997.

 

Friedman, Edward; Selden, Mark; Pickowicz, Paul G.; Johnson, Kay A. Chinese village, socialist state. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.

 

Frost, Molly Spitzer. Chinese matriarchy: Clues from legends and characters. Thesis (Ph. D) -- Georgetown University, 1982. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1983.

 

Furth, Charlotte. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

 

 

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Gao, Xiongya. Pearl S. Buck's Chinese Women Characters. Susquehanna University Press, 2000.

 

Gender and sexuality in twentieth-century Chinese literature and society. (ed. Lu, Tonglin). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.

 

Gender and women studies in Chinese societies. (ed. Cheung, Fanny M.C., Yip Hon Miing; Kwok Pui Lan). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1995.

 

Gender politics in modern China: writing and feminism. (ed. Barlow, Tani E.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

 

Gilmartin, Christina K. Engendering the Chinese revolution: radical women, communist politics, and mass movements in the 1920s. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

 

Gross, Susan H. Women in traditional China. Saint Paul, MN: Upper Midwest Women's History Center, 1980.

 

Gu Hua. Virgin widows. (ed. Goldblatt, Howard). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.

 

Guide to Women's Studies in China. (eds. Hershatter, Gail; Honig, Emily; Mann, Susan; Rofel, Lisa.). China Research Monograph, 50. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1998.

 

 

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Hay, Trevor. Tartar City woman: scenes from the life of Wang Hsin-ping, former citizen of China = Ching cheng chih nu. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press; Portland, OR: (dist.) International Specialist Book Services, 1990.

 

Hayes, James. South China Village Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

 

Hejun, Sun. Impact of economic development on rural women in China. New York: UNIPUB, 1993.

 

Hemmel, V. Women in rural China. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, Incorporated, 1984.

 

Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous pleasures: prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.

 

Hibbert, Eloise T. Embroidered gauze. North Stratford, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, Incorporated, 1977.

 

Hinsch, Bret. Woman in early imperial China. Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1994.

 

Hoe, Susanna. The private life of old Hong Kong: Western women in the British Colony, 1841-1941. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

 

Hoe, Susanna. Chinese footprints: Exploring women's history in China, Hong Kong and Macau. Hong Kong: Roundhouse Publications Limited, 2001.

 

Honig, Emily. Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986.

 

Honig, Emily; Hershatter, Gail. Personal voices: Chinese women in the 1980's. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.

 

Hsieh Pingying. Girl rebel: the autobiography of Hsieh Pingying with extracts from her 'New War Diaries. (trans. Lin, Adet; Lin, Anor: contr. Lin, Yutang). New York: Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 1975.

 

Hua, Cai and Hustvedt, Asti. A society without fathers or husbands. New York: Zone Books, 2001.

 

Hua, Cai and Hustvedt, Asti. A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China. (trans. Hustvedt, Asti). New York: Zone Books, 2000.

 

 

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Jacka, Tamara. Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

 

Jaschok, Maria. Concubines and Bondservants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom. London: Zed Books. 1988.

 

Jaschok, Maria; Jingjun, Shi. The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2001.

 

Johnson, Kay A. Women, the family and peasant revolution in China. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

 

Judd, Ellen R. Gender and power in rural north China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.

 

Judd, Ellen R. The Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

 

 

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Katkov, Neil Ennis. The domestication of concubinage in imperial China. Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Harvard University, 1997. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1997.

 

Kazuko, Ono. Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850-1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989.

 

Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz. Images of Chinese women: a Westerner's view. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1992.

 

Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the inner chambers: women and culture in seventeenth-century China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.

 

Kristeva, Julia. About Chinese women. (trans. Barrows, Anita). New York: Marion Boyars Publishers, Incorporated, 1986.

 

Kung, Lydia. Factory women in Taiwan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

 

Kwok, Pui-lan. Chinese women and Christianity, 1860-1927. Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Harvard University. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1989.

 

 

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Larson, Wendy. Women and Writing in Modern China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

 

Lee Yao, Esther S. Chinese Women: Past and Present. Irving, TX: Ide House, Incorporated, 1983.

 

Lee, Ching K. Unravelling the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

 

Lee, Lily. The Virtue of Yin: Essays on Chinese Women. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 1994.

 

Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Wiles, Sue. Women of the Long March. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited, 2000.

 

Lee, Nancy Swann. "Pan Chao: Foremost Woman Scholar of China." Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies, No. 5. (first pub. 1932). Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 2001.

 

Levy, Howard S. Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom. (Reprint of 1966 book). London: Kegan Paul International Limited, 2001.

 

Li Hui. "Report from the Henan Conference," NWSA Journal, V. 2, N. 3, Spring, pp. 461-464, 1989.

 

Li, Xiaojiang. "Creating a Public Sphere: A Self-Portrait in the Women's Studies Movement of China," Asian Journal of Women's Studies, V. 2, p. 70, 1996.

 

Li, Xiaojiang. The Development of Women's Studies in China: a Comparison of Perspectives on the Women's Movement in China and the West. Copenhagen, Denmark: Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, 1993.

 

Li, Xiaojiang. (S. Katherine Campbell, trans.) "Economic Reform and the Awakening of Chinese Women's Collective Consciousness" in Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State. Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

 

Li, Xiaojiang. "My Path to Womanhood," in Changing Lives: Life Stories of Asian Pioneers in Women's Studies. Committee on Women's Studies in Asia, ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. pp. 108-122, 1994.

 

Li, Xiaojiang. (Zhang Yajie, trans., with editorial assistance by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang) "With What Discourse Do We Reflect on Chinese Women? Thoughts on Transnational Feminism in China, in Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang, ed. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 261-277, 1999.

 

Li Xiaojiang and Li Hui. "Women's Studies in China," NWSA Journal, V. 2, N. 3, Spring, pp. 458-460, 1989.

 

Li, Xiaojiang and Xiaodan Zhang. "Creating a Space for Women: Women's Studies in China in the 1980s. Signs, V. 20, N. 1 (Autumn, pp. 137-151, 1994.

 

Lieberman, Sally T. "The Mother and Narrative Politics in Modern China." Feminist Issues Series. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.

 

Liang, Jun. "A Serious Mission," in Changing Lives: Life Stories of Asian Pioneers in Women's Studies. Committee on Women's Studies in Asia, ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994.

 

Lin, Chun. "Finding a Language: Feminism and Women's Movements in Contemporary China," in Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics. Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, Debra Keates, eds. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 11-20, 1997.

 

Ling, Amy. Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry. New York: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1990.

 

Lintin, Daniel Paul. From First Lady to Dragonlady: A Rhetorical Study of Madame Chiang's Public Personae Before and During Her 1943 United States Tour. Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Minnesota, 2001. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 2001.

 

Liu, Bohong, Jin Yihong, and Lin Chun. "Women's Studies in China," in A Companion to Feminist Philosophy. Alison Jaggar and Iris Young, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 108-117, 1998.

 

Liu Ching-An. Women in Folksongs. Pasadena, CA: The Oriental Book Store, 1985.

 

Lives: Chinese Working Women. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984.

 

Look at the World through Women's Eyes: Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions at the NGO Forum on Women, Huairou, China, September 1995. (ed. Friedlander, Eva). New York: NGO Forum on Women '95, 1996.

 

 

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Macartney, Catherine, Lady. An English lady in Chinese Turkestan. Originally published London: Ernest Benn, 1931. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

 

Mann, Susan. Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

 

Marriage and inequality in Chinese society. (eds. Ebrey, Patricia B.; Watson, Rubie S.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.

 

McMahon, Keith. Misers, Shrews and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

 

Milwertz, Cecilia N. Accepting Population Control: Urban Chinese Women and the One-Child Family Policy. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.

 

Min, Anchee. Becoming Madame Mao. Historical Fiction. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

 

Min, Dongchao. "The Development of Women's Studies: From the 1980's to the Present," in Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation. Jackie West et al., eds. NY: St. Martin's Press, Inc, 1999.

 

Min, Dongchao. "From Asexuality to Gender Differences in Modern China," in Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms. Eileen Janes Yeo, ed. London and New York: Rivers Oram Press, pp.193-203, 1997.

 

Mosher, Steven W. A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One -Child Policy. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.

 

Mou, Sherry J. Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 2002.

 

Mou, Sherry J., ed. Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition. 1998.

 

Moudud, Hasna J. Women in China. Flushing, NY: Asia Book Corporation of America, 1980.

 

 

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New Women in New China. San Francisco, CA: China Books & Periodicals, Incorporated, 1972.

 

Nie Zeng Jifen. Testimony of a Confucian Woman: the Autobiography of Mrs. Nie Zeng Jifen, 1852-1942. (eds. Kennedy, Thomas L.; Kennedy, Micki). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

 

Norton, Mary Beth. "Women's History and Feminism in China Today: A Report from Peking University," Journal of Women's History, V.1, N. 1 (Spring), pp. 108-114, 1989.

 

Norton, Mary Beth. "Women's History and Feminism in China: An Update." Journal of Women's History, V.2, N. 2 (Fall), pp. 166-167, 1990.

 

Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century. (ed. Peterson, Barbara Bennett). Armonk: M. E. Sharpe Incorporated, 2000.

 

 

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O'Hara, Albert R. The Position of Woman in Early China: According to the Lieh Nu Chuan, The Biographies of Eminent Chinese Women. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, Incorporated, 1984.

 

Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Choquette, Clifford J. ?Dame Full of Vim and Vigor: A Biography of Alice Middleton Boring: Biologist in China? Women in Science Series, Vol. 1. Newark: Gordon & Breach Publishing Group, 1999.

 

Operatic Ritual, Ritual Opera: Mu-lien Rescues His Mother' in Chinese Popular culture. (ed. Johnson, David). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.

 

 

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Peck, Stacey. Halls of Jade, Walls of Stone: women in China Today. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts Incorporated, 1985.

 

Peffer, George Anthony. "If They Don't Bring Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion." The Asian American Experience Series. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

 

Phillips, Molly. Against All Odds: Famous & Infamous Women of China & Some Contemporary Achievers, 220 B. C.-1995 A. D. Victoria: Trafford Publishing, 2000.

 

Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China: Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique. (eds. Liu, Kang; Tang, Xiaobing; contr. Jameson, Fredric). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

 

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Pui-Lan, Kwok. Chinese Women and Christianity, 1860-1927. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1992.

 

 

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Qi, Zhang. "New Trends in Women's Studies in China," Asian Journal of Women's Studies, V.3, N.1, p. 185, 1997.

 

 

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Rai, Shirin M. "Gender in China," in China in the 1990s, rev. ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press, pp. 181-192, 1999.

 

Raphals, Lisa. Sharing the Light: Representations of Women & Virtue in Early China.?Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

 

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Roberts, Rosemary. "Women's Studies in Literature and Feminist Literary Criticism in Contemporary China," in Dress, Sex, and Text in Chinese Culture. Antonia Finnane and Anne E. McLaren, eds. Clayton: Monash Asia Institute, 1999.

 

Rofel, Lisa. "Museum as Women's Space: Displays of Gender in Post-Mao China," in Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang, ed. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 116-131, 1999.

 

Rofel, Lisa. Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

 

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Sangren, P. Steven. "Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols: Kuan-Yin, Ma-tsu, and the Eternal Mother." Signs. Sept. 1 (1983): 4-25.

 

Schilling, Dennis; Kralle, Jianfei. Die Frau im alten China. Bild und Wirklichkeit. Studien zu den Quellen der Zhou- und Han-Zeit. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 2001.

 

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