Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes

The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays by Western-educated Chinese women and men, on the historical role of women in a time of great social and economic upheaval. Part Two - Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China - presents the views of women who experienced life in this period through essays and autobiographies that range from women as concubines to women as factory workers, from women suffering footbinding to women serving as nurses, from women in traditional role in a traditional family to women as scientists and teachers. Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction, Yu-ning Li; Part 1 Historical Interpretations; Chapter 1 Women’s Place in Chinese History, Shih Hu; Chapter 2 Female Rulers in Ancient China, Lien-sheng Yang; Chapter 3 Feminist Thought in Ancient China, Yü-t’ang Lin; Chapter 4 Influences of Foreign Cultures on the Chinese Woman, Heng-che Ch’en; Chapter 5 The Chinese Woman Past and Present, Pao-sun Tseng; Chapter 6 Chinese Women’s Fight for Freedom, Ch’ing-ling Sung; Chapter 7 Historical Roots of Changes in Women’s Status in Modern China, Yu-ning Li; Part 2 Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China; Chapter 8 Opposition to Footbinding, Mo-chün Chang; Chapter 9 Remembrances of an Elderly Aunt, Heng-che Ch’en; Chapter 10 When I Learned How to Cook, Hsiang-ning Ho; Chapter 11 Remembrances of the May Fourth Movement, Ying-ch’ao Teng; Chapter 12 The Family Prison, Ping-ying Hsieh; Chapter 13 My Escape from Hardship to a Free Life, Hsiu-ying; Chapter 14 Sorrows of a Factory Worker, Lan Lu; Chapter 15 A Village Schoolteacher, l-hsing Fu; Chapter 16 Scientific Entrepreneurship, Hung-ying; Chapter 17 Struggling Against Discrimination in Business; Chapter 18 Shen-shen, Hsiang-ts’un; Chapter 19 Problems Confronting an Ideal Couple, Ah-jung; Chapter 20 Mother’s Books, Ch’i-chün P’an; Chapter 21 Why I Part ed with Tang Na, Ch’ing Chiang; Chapter 22 My Life in the Imperial Palace, Yü-ch’in Li; Chapter 23 A Young Nurse in Manchuria, Hsueh-chao Ch’en;