Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes

by Yu-ning,Li

• ISBN13: 9780873325974
• ISBN10: 0873325974
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historical Interpretations
Women's Place in Chinese History	p. 3
Female Rulers in Ancient China	p. 16
Feminist Thought in Ancient China	p. 34
Influences of Foreign Cultures on the Chinese Woman	p. 59
The Chinese Woman Past and Present	p. 72
Chinese Women's Fight for Freedom	p. 87
Historical Roots of Changes in Women's Status in Modern China	p. 102
Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China
Opposition to Footbinding	p. 125
Remembrances of an Elderly Aunt	p. 129
When I Learned How to Cook	p. 133
Remembrances of the May Fourth Movement	p. 144
The Family Prison	p. 156
My Escape from Hardship to a Free Life	p. 167
Sorrows of a Factory Worker	p. 175
A Village Schoolteacher	p. 182
Scientific Entrepreneurship	p. 186
Struggling Against Discrimination in Business	p. 192
Shen-shen	p. 199
Problems Confronting an Ideal Couple	p. 204
Mother's Books	p. 209
Why I Parted with T'ang Na	p. 216
My Life in the Imperial Palace	p. 226
A Young Nurse in Manchuria	p. 247
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