Table of Contents

1. Life Courses and Gender Roles 2. Marriage and Family 3. Sex, Body, and Medicine 4. Labor, Profession, and Everyday Life 5. Religions 6. Arts, Literature, and Education 7. Five Women to Remember

About the Author

Ping Yao is professor of history at California State University Los Angeles. Her research focuses on medieval Chinese women’s experiences and religious practice. She has published extensively in both English and Chinese, including, most recently, Chinese Funerary Biographies: An Anthology of Remembered Lives.