Women in China's Long Twentieth Century / Edition 1

by Gail Hershatter

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520098565
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/29/2007
Series:	Global, Area, and International Archive
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Gail Hershatter is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among her books is Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai.

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