Preface

Shirley L. Mow

Introduction

Tao Jie

I. Women in Early Chinese History and Culture

1. New Meanings in a Classic: Differing Interpretations of Ban Zhao and Her Admonitions for Women in the Late Qing Dynasty

Xia Xiaohong

2. Characteristics of Women’s Lives During the Song Dynasty

Zheng Bijun

3. Chinese Women’s Status as Seen Through Peking Opera

Huang Yufu

4. The Women’s Script: An Invention of Chinese Women

Zhao Liming

II. Women and Changing China

5. The Awakening of Chinese Women and the Women’s Movement in the Early Twentieth Century

Lu Meiyi

6. The Chinese Women’s Movement Before and After the Long March

Lily Xiao Hong Lee

7. The History and Current Status of Chinese Women’s Participation in Politics

Wang Qingshu

III. Women and Education

8. The Readjustment of China’s Higher Education Structure and Women’s Higher Education

Ma Wanhua

9. Gender Inequality in Education in Rural China

Danke Li

10. The Center for Gender Studies at Dalian University: A New Plan for the Mutual Development of Women’s/Gender Studies and Higher Education

Li Xiaojiang

IV. Marriage and Family

11. The Marriage Law and the Rights of Chinese Women in Marriage and the Family

Chen Mingxia

12. The Status of Chinese Women in Marriage and the Family

Xiong Yu

13. Domestic Violence in China

Wang Xingjuan

14. The Lives and Needs of Elderly Women in Urban China

Liu Ying

V. Women and Work

15. Employment and Chinese Urban Women under Two Systems

Jiang Yongping

16. Rural Women and Their Road to Public Participation

Jin Yihong

17. Women’s Development in China’s Poor and Backward Western Areas: A Case Study

Han Jialing

18. Leaving Home and Coming Back: Experiences of Rural Migrant Women

Tan Shen

VI. Women and the Future

19. Half the Sky: A Television Program for Women

Shou Yuanjun

20. Chinese Women and the Mass Media: Status Quo, Interventions, and Challenges

Bu Wei

21. Class and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Women’s Literature

Dai Jinhua

Appendices

Select Bibliography

Notes on Contributors