Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

by Gail Hershatter

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520098560
• ISBN13: 9780520098565
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"