Women in Chinese Society (Studies in Chinese Society)

The scholarly essays offer study-assessments of the changing roles, status, and lives of Chinese women, urban and rural, wealthy and poor, on the Mainland and Taiwan, in the twentieth century Frontmatter Contributors (page ix) Introduction (page 1) Lü K'un's New Audience: The Influence of Women's Literacy on Sixteenth-Century Thought (JOANNA F. HANDLIN, page 13) The Emergence of Women at the End of the Ch'ing: The Case of Ch'iu Chin (MARY BACKUS RANKIN, page 39) Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung (MARJORIE TOPLEY, page 67) The Women of Hai-shan: A Demographic Portrait (ARTHUR P. WOLF, page 89) Women and Suicide in China (MARGERY WOLF, page 111) Women as Writers in the 1920's and 1930's (YI-TSI FEUERWERKER, page 143) Chiang Ch'ing's Coming of Age (ROXANE WITKE, page 169) The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women (EMILY M. AHERN, page 193) Women and Childbearing in Kwan Mun Hau Village: A Study of Social Change (ELIZABETH JOHNSON, page 215) Women in the Countryside of China (DELIA DAVIN, page 243) Notes (page 277) Character List (page 303) Index (page 307) The papers in this book were presented in preliminary form at a conference on women in Chinese society held in June 1973 "in San Francisco under the sponsorship of the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies"--Preface Edited By Margery Wolf And Roxane Witke ; Contributors, Emily M. Ahern ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.