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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Beyond Family, Household, and Kinship -- 1. Learned Women in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. From Daughter to Daughter-in-Law in the Women's Script of Southern Hunan -- 3. Out of the Traditional Halls of Academe: Exploring New Avenues for Research on Women -- 4. China's Modernization and Changes in the Social Status of Rural Women -- II Sex and the Social Order -- 5. Desire, Danger, and the Body: Stories of Women's Virtue in Late Ming China -- 6. Rethinking Van Gulik: Sexuality and Reproduction in Traditional Chinese Medicine -- 7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai -- 8. Male Suffering and Male Desire: The Politics of Reading Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang -- III Where Liberation Lies -- 9. Gender, Political Culture, and Women's Mobilization in the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, 1924–1927 -- 10. Liberation Nostalgia and a Yearning for Modernity -- 11. The Origins of China's Birth Planning Policy -- 12. Chinese Women Workers: The Delicate Balance between Protection and Equality -- IV Becoming Women in the Post-Mao Era -- 13. Women's Consciousness and Women's Writing -- 14. Women, Illness, and Hospitalization: Images of Women in Contemporary Chinese Fiction -- 15. Politics and Protocols of Funü: (Un)Making National Woman -- 16. Economic Reform and the Awakening of Chinese Women's Collective Consciousness -- Notes -- Contributors