Women of the Tang Dynasty by 
About Chinese Women by 
Leftover Women by A century ago, Chinese feminists fighting for the emancipation of women helped spark the Republican Revolution, which overthrew the Qing empire. After China's Communist revolution of 1949, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky." In the early years of the People's Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations with expansive initiatives such as assigning urban women jobs in the planned economy. Yet those gains are now being eroded in China's post-socialist era. Contrary to many claims made in the mainstream media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of many rights and gains relative to men. Leftover Women debunks the popular myth that women have fared well as a result of post-socialist China's economic reforms and breakneck growth. Laying out the structural discrimination against women in China will speak to broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development.
Inner Quarters by 
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History by Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that philosophers, writers, parents, doctors, and ordinary people of all descriptions have left reams of historical evidence on the subject. Moreover, China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. Sexual desire and sexual activity were viewed as innate human needs, essential to bodily health and well-being, and universal marriage and reproduction served the state by supplying tax-paying subjects, duly bombarded with propaganda about family values. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of gender and sexuality in modern China? In this wonderfully written and enthralling book, Susan Mann answers that question by focusing in turn on state policy, ideas about the physical body, and notions of sexuality and difference in China's recent history, from medicine to the theater to the gay bar; from law to art and sports. More broadly, the book shows how changes in attitudes toward sex and gender in China during the twentieth century have cast a new light on the process of becoming modern, while simultaneously challenging the universalizing assumptions of Western modernity.
Beauty and the Book by
內闱 : 宋代的婚姻和妇女生活 = The inner quarters : marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Bartle Library Stacks HQ684 .A25125 2004
中国古代妇女生活/ 高世瑜. 北京 : 商务印书馆国际有限公司
Bartle Library Stacks: HQ1767 .G36 1996
二十世纪三十年代女性/单正平. 天津市 : 天津人民美术出版社
Bartle Library Stacks: HQ1767 .S43 2003
妇女运动史话 = A brief history of women's movement in China by