Women of China Beijing 1985. Black and white illutrations, 293pp, extremities lightly broned, covers a little worn, paperback with French flaps, good copy. 18 x 11cm. Contents include: Raptures of Devotion; An Unbreakable Civic Spirit; Women Teachers in Mountain Villages; Song of the Epoch - Growth of a Peasant Woman..... More
New York. Feminist Press. 1995. Black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 357pp, suggested readings, chronology, slight bumping upper extremities, spine a little sunned, good paperback copy. A really interesting anthology of writings on China with a particular focus on the history and place of women in China aimed at..... More
Boston. Houghton & Mifflin. 1937. Black and white illutrations, xiv + 324pp, index, bibliography, upper endpaper corner creased, endpapers browned, small indent on lower edge, hardback with some shelf wear, good copy. Biographies of significant and incredible Chinese women from ancient to modern times collated by Florence Ayscough, a sinologist..... More
Hong Kong. Earnshaw Books. 2012. 221pp, bibliography, paperback in very good condition. "Karaoke bars with prostitute hostesses are standard fare in Chinese cities, college students accept jobs as highly paid mistresses, sex stores are as common as corner convenience shops, venereal disease and HIV/AIDS are soaring, and China's social media..... More
Minnesota. University of Minnesota. 1990. xvii + 197pp, notes, index, neat signature front endpaper, light wear to extremities, slightly foxed edges, still a good paperback copy. Chow brings together a variety of texts about modern China - from Bertolucci's Last Emperor, to popular "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" stories, to writings..... More
London. Macmillan. 1985. Tables and figures, xvi + 237pp, index, remainder mark on lower cover, extremities a little browned, covers a little worn, mark on lower cover, good paperback copy. "Young Chinese couples have been asked by the Chinese government to have no more than one child. The single-child family..... More
London. Zed Books. 1995. ix + 209pp, index, notes, appendices, covers a little worn around extremities, good paperback copy. "Much more is known about prescribed female qualities, be they Confucian, Communist, or culturally Chinese, than about how it actually feels for Chinese women to live with that rhetoric and with..... More
London. Hurst & Co., 1995. Black and white illustrations, ix + 233pp, index, bibliography, spine a touch sunned, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press. (c. 2001). Paperback edition. x + 181pp, index, bibliography, paperback, spine lightly faded, very good condition. This book "is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth-century Chinese novel of manners, 'The Red Chamber Dream', or 'The Story of..... More
New York. Continuum. 1997. Notes, bibliography, index, ix + 270pp, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Evans explores the changing identities of women and sexuality in Comminist China - from the 1950s expressions of an idealized 'woman" at the service of the state through to today, where the Party/state administration..... More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1994. xii + 454pp, notes, spine a touch lightened, extremities a little rubbed, otherwise very good paperback copy. "The first significant collections of essays on women in China in more than two decades captures a pivotal moment in cross-cultural-and interdisciplinary -dialogue. For the first time, the..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1995. Maps, black and white illustrations, xii + 302pp, index, paperback, a good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 150169). More
Hong Kong. Roundhouse. 1998. Black and white illustrations, xvi + 351pp, index, paperback, a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 149525. More
Oxford. Berg. 2001. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxvi + 332pp, index, bibliography, very good hardback copy. "In the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and..... More
Berkeley. Ten Speed Press. 2000. Colour photographic illustrations, 183pp, bibliography, index, paperback, 25.5 x 25.5cm, very good copy. An extraordinary exploration of footbinding that encompasses Chinese art and mythology, social and political history, and art. When referring to this item please quote stockid 170370. More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 2005. Maps, black and white illustrations, xix + 332pp, index, works cited, notes, glossary, tiny remainder mark lower edge, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of the..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1994. Map, black and white illustrations, ix + 395pp, index, notes, works cited, character list, a good paperback copy. In this book the author discusses women and culture in seventeenth-century Jiangnan, focusing on the three typres of women's communities that developed in this environment: domestic, social..... More
Sydney. Wild Peony. 1994. 118pp, glossary, bibliography, very lightly sunned spine, very good paperback copy. Chapters include: Ban Zhao (c. 48 - c. 120): Her Role in the Formulation Controls Imposed Upon Women in Traditional China; Xie Daoyun: The Style of a Woman Mingshi; The Emergence of Buddhist Nuns in..... More
Armonk. ME Sharpe. 1991. xxx + 251pp, paperback, light wear to extremities, paperback, a good copy. 23 x 25.5cm. "The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays..... More
London. William Heinemann. 1957. 1st edition. Colour frontispiece, xiv + 245pp. Green cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Some light spotting to preliminaries, finals and edges but a good tight copy in an attractive, original, little worn dustjacket. 19.5 x 12.5cm. Biography of Wu Zetian, who rose..... More
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2002. Black and white illustrations, viii + 239pp, notes, bibliography, index, 23.5 x 16cm. Boards little marked, dustjacket lightly worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 172612. More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1997. Maps, black and white illustrations, xii + 326pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, little extremities wear, a little pencilling on margins, very good hardback copy. 16 x 24.3cm. "This first book-length study of gender relations in the Lower Yangzi region during the High Qing era (c..... More
Heinemann. 1948. Black and white illustrations, xii + 187pp, index, covers a litttle flecked, dustjacket fragmented with loss and sellotape stains, endpapers browned, light foxing throughout, prior ownership details on front free endpaper and Shanghai bookseller's stamp. A sound copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 11179... More
London. HarperCollins Publishers. 1986. Black and white photographic illustrations, 288pp, index, neat prior owner's name and bookseller's stamp front free endpaper, edges browned, a good copy. The Chinese revolution ended the hideous practice of footbinding and brought such basic freedoms as the right of women to choose their spouses, to..... More
Albany. State University of New York Press. 1998. Black and white line illustrations, xxiii + 348pp, index, bibliography, appendices, very good in paperback. Explores the historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on..... More
