Table of Contents

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;