Acknowledgments ix
Note on Terminology xi
Chronology xii
Introduction
Beverly Bossler 3
Part One
Early Modern Evolutions
Chapter one
Les Noces chinoises: An Eighteenth-Century French
Representation of a Chinese Wedding Procession
Ann Waltner 21
Chapter two
The Control of Female Energies: Gender
and Ethnicity on China’s Southeast Coast
Guotong Li 41
Chapter three
Collecting Masculinity: Merchants and Gender
Performance in Eighteenth-Century China
Yulian Wu 59
Chapter four
Writing Love: The Heming ji by Wang Zhaoyuan and Hao Yixing
Weijing Lu 83
Part Tw o
“Cloistered Ladies” to New Women
Chapter five
“Media-Savvy” Gentlewomen of the 1870s and Beyond
Ellen Widmer 113
Chapter six
The Fate of the Late Imperial “Talented Woman”: Gender
and Historical Change in Early-Twentieth-Century China
Joan Judge 139
Chapter seven
Moving to Shanghai: Urban Women of Means in the Late Qing
Yan Wang 161
Part Three
Radicalism and Ruptures
Chapter eight
The Life of a Slogan
Emily Honig 185
Chapter nine
Bad Transmission
Gail Hershatter 209
Glossary of Chinese Characters 227
Bibliography 235
List of Contributors 257
Index 261
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