Introduction: women's journals as multigeneric artefacts Joan Judge, Barbara Mittler and Michel Hockx
Part I. Methodologies: Framing, Constituting, and Regulating the Space of the Woman's Journal:
1. Persuading with pictures: cover art and The Ladies' Journal (1915–1931) Julia F. Andrews
2. Engendering a journal: editors and nudes in petite and its global context Liying Sun
3. Raising eyebrows: the journal Eyebrow Talk and the regulation of 'harmful fiction' in modern China Michel Hockx
Coda: women's journals through the prism of late Qing fiction Ellen Widmer
Part II. A Space of Their Own: The Woman's Journal, Generic Choice and the Making of Female Public Expression: Reflection: writers and readers: constituting the space of women's journals Jennifer Scanlon
4. Radicalizing poetics: poetic practice in Women's World, 1904–1907 Grace Fong
5. Redefining female talent: The Women's Eastern Times, The Ladies' Journal, and the development of 'women's art' in China Doris Sung
6. Constituting the female subject: romantic fiction by women authors in Eyebrow Talk Jin-Zhu Huang
7. Rebellious yet constrained: dissenting women's views on love and sexual morality in The Ladies' Journal and New Woman Rachel Hsu
8. Voices of female educators in early twentieth-century women's magazines Siao-chen Hu
9. 'Room for improvement': the ideal of the educational home in The Ladies' Journal Maria af Sandeberg
Part III. Gendered Space and Global Context: Foreign Models, Circulating Concepts and the Constitution of Female Subjectivities: Reflection lived and idealized self and other on the pages of the women's magazine Nathalie Cooke and Jennifer Garland
10. Competing conceptualizations of Guo (country, state, and/or nation-state) in late Qing women's journals Nanxiu Qian
11. Western heroines in late Qing women's journals: Meiji-Era writings on 'women's self-help' in China Xia Xiaohong
12. Foreign knowledge of bodies: Japanese sources, western science, and China's republican lady Joan Judge
13. 'Othering' the foreign other in Chinese women's magazines in the early twentieth century Paul Bailey
14. The new (wo)man and her/his others: foreigners on the pages of China's women's magazines Barbara Mittler
Conclusion: a space of their own? Concluding reflections Harriet Evans.
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