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
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. 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
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
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
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
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1999. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 330pp, index, bibliography, notes, spine trifle sunned, otherwise a very good paperback copy. "The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three..... More
London. Sheldon Press. 1974. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 207pp, index, paperback, minor creasing lower cover, a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 133397. More
New York. Feminist Press. 1976. xxxv + 203pp, notes, very good hardback copy. 22 x 15cm. Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged..... More
New York. Feminist Press. 2004. xxxvi + 313pp, some rubbing along extremities, good paperback copy. 23 x 15.5cm. "These 21 dynamic articles by Chinese women scholars explore the limitations on women's lives in premodern China, detail their involvement in the great political movements of the 20th century and examine how..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1991. Map, figures, tables, xvii + 385pp, references, index, upper cover creased at lower corner, a good paperback copy. Studies on China, 12. Until the publication of this book our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1978. Reprint. ix + 315pp, notes, index, couple markings lower endpaper, closed tear on spine, lightly worn paperback covers, otherwise good copy. The 10 papers in this collection cover a wide range of topics - seventeenth century attitudes toward women (Joanna F. Handlin), the female revolutionary..... More