Bibliography on Women in Chinese History

[This began with a very comprehensive bibliography distributed by Patricia Ebrey, to which I have added sporadically, concentrating on women in Chinese religions.]

• Ahern, Emily M.  1974.  "Affines and the Rituals of Kinship," in Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society, ed. Arthur P. Wolf.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1975. "Power and Pollution of Chinese Women." in Wolf and Witke, op. cit.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1988 (Emily Martin) "Gender and Ideological Differences in  Representations of Life and Death." In Death Ritual in Late  Imperial and Modern China, eds. James L. Watson and Evelyn S.  Rawski. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Anagnost, Ann. 1989.  "Transformations of Gender in Modern China."  In Sandra Morgen ed., Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching.  Washington, DC:  AAA , pp. 313‑342.
• Andors, Phyllis. 1983. The Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women, 1949‑1980. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Ayscough, Florence. 1937. Chinese Women Yesterday and Today.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Bao, Xiaolan. 1990.  AIntegrating Women into Chinese History:  Reflections on Historical Scholarship on Women in China,@ Chinese Historian 3.2.
• Barlow, Tani and Donald Lowe. "Feminism." In Chinese Reflections. New York: Praeger, 1985, pp. 189‑200.
• Barlow, Tani E. and Gary J. Bjorge, eds. 1989.  I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Barlow, Tani E., ed. 1993. Gender Politics in Modern China:  Writing and Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Barr, Allan. 1989. "Disarming Intruders: Alien Women in Liaozhai  Zhiyi." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 49:501‑18.
• Beahan, Charlotte L. 1975. "Feminism and Nationalism in Chinese  Women's Press, 1902‑1922," Modern China 1:376‑416.
• Beldon, Jack.1970.  "Goldflower's Story."  In China Shakes the World. New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 275‑317.
• Bernhardt. 1995. AThe Inheritance Rights of Daughters: The Song  Anomaly?@ Modern China 21.3:269‑309.
• Besio, Kimberly. 1994. AIn a Woman=s Voice: Portrayals of  Heroism in Two Zaju on Three Kingdoms Themes,@ Ming Studies  32:7‑19.
• Birge, Bettine. 1989. "Chu Hsi and Women's Education," in Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage, ed. Wm. Theodore de  Bary and John W. Chaffee. Berkeley: University of California  Press.
• ‑‑‑‑‑.  2002.  Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China.  Cambridge University Press.
• ‑‑‑‑‑.2003. "Women and Confucianism from Song to Ming: The Institutionalization of Patrilineality," in Paul Jakov Smith and Richard von Glahn, eds., The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center.
• Blake, Fred. 1978. "Death and Abuse in Marriage Laments: The  Curse of Chinese Brides." Asian Folklore Studies 37:13‑33.
• ‑‑‑‑‑.   1994. Foot‑binding in Neo‑Confucian China and the  Appropriation of Female Labor, Signs 19.3:676‑712.
  
• Birrell, Anne M. 1985. "The Dusty Mirror: Courtly Portraits of  Woman in Southern Dynasties Love Poetry," in Expressions of Self  in Chinese Literature, ed. by Robert E. Hegel and Richard C.  Hessney. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Brandauer, Frederick. 1977. "Women in the Ching‑hua Yuan:  Emancipation Toward a Confucian Ideal," Journal of Asian Studies 36.1:647‑660.
• Brownell, Susan & Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. 2002. Chinese Femininities / Chinese Masculinities: A Reader.  Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Cahill, Suzanne, 1986. "Performers and Female Taoist Adepts: Hsi  Wang Mu as Patron Deity of Women in T'ang China," Journal of  the American Oriental Society 106:155‑68.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1990. "Practice Makes Perfect: Paths to Transcendence  for Women in Medieval China," Taoist Resources, 2.2:23‑42.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1993. Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Carlitz, Katherine. 1991. "The Social Uses of Female Virtue in  Late Ming Editions of Lien Zhuan." Late Imperial China  12.2:117‑48.
• Cass, Victoria B. 1986. "Female Healers in the Ming and the Lodge  of Ritual and Ceremony." Journal of the American Oriental Society 106.1:233‑40.
• Cass, Victoria. 1999. Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Chaffee, John. 1991. AThe Marriage of Sung Imperial Clanswomen,@ in Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, ed. Rubie S. Watson and Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Berkeley: University of  California Press.
• Chen, Chung‑min. 1985. "Dowry and Inheritance," in The Chinese  Family and its Ritual Behavior, eds. Hsieh Jih‑chang and Chuang  Ying‑chang. Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology.
• Chen Duxiu. 1999.  "The Way of Confucius and Modern Life."  In Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong, eds. Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook.  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
• Chen, Fan Pen. 1992. AFemale Warriors, Magic and the Supernatural  in Traditional Chinese Novels.@ In The Annual Review of Women  in World Religions, vol. 2. Arvind Sharma and Katherine K. Young,  pp. 91‑109. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Cheng, Lucie, Charlotte Furth, and Hon‑ming yip, 1984. Women in  China: Bibliography of Available English Language Materials.  Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies.
• Chow, Rey. 1991. Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of  Reading Between West and East. Minneapolis: University of  Minnesota Press.
• Cohen, Myron L. 1976. House United, House Divided: The Chinese  Family in Taiwan. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Ch'ü, T'ung‑tsu.  1965. Law and Society in Traditional China.  Paris: Mouton.
• Chung, Priscilla. 1981. Palace Women in the Northern Sung, 960‑1126 (Monographies du T'oung Pao, 12). Leiden: E. J. Brill.
• Chung, Sue Fawn. 1979. "The Much Maligned Empress Dowager: A  Revisionist Study of the Empress Dowager Tz'u‑hsi (1835‑1908)."  Modern Asian Studies 13:177‑96.
• Cooper, Elizabeth. 1914. My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard. New  York: Frederick A. Stokes.
• Croll, Elisabeth. 1974. The Women's Movement in China: A  Selection of Readings, 1949‑73. London: Anglo‑Chinese  Educational Institute.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1978. Feminism and Socialism in China. London.  Routlege and Kegan Paul. [Ch. 2: "Frog in a Well: Mechanisms of Subordination" is an effective description of women within traditional Confucian imperial Chinese society.] 
  
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1981. The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1983. Chinese Women Since Mao. London: Zed Books.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1995.  Changing Identities of Chinese Women: Rhetoric, Experience and Self‑Perception in Twentieth‑Century China.  London: Zed Books Ltd.
• ‑‑‑‑‑, Delia Davin, and Panny Kane, eds. 1985. China's One‑Child  Policy. London: Macmillan.
• Cutter, Robert Joe. 1992. AThe Death of Empress Zhen: Fiction and Historiography in Early Medieval China.@  Journal of the  American Oriental Society 112:577‑83.
• Dooling, Amy D. Dooling and Kristina M. Torgeson, eds. 1998.  Writing Women in Modern China: an Anthology of Women's Literature from the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Dull, Jack. 1978. "Marriage and Divorce in Han China: A Glimpse at Pre‑Confucian Society," In Chinese Family Law in Historical  Perspective, ed. David Buxbaum. Seattle: University of  Washington Press.
• Duval, Jean. 1972. A Study of Prostitution in Shanghai at the end  of the Qing Dynasty as It Appears in the Shanghai Novels.  Paris: VERLCA.
• Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. 1981. "Women in the Kinship System of the  Southern Song Upper Class," Historical Reflections 8:113‑28.
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• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1984. "The Women in Liu Kezhuang's Family," Modern China  10.4:415‑40.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1986. "Concubines in Sung China," Journal of Family  History 11:1‑24.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1990. "Women, Marriage, and the Family in Chinese  History," in The Heritage of China, ed. Paul Ropp. Berkeley:  University of California Press.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1991. "Introduction" and "Shifts in Marriage Finance from the Sixth to the Thirteenth Centuries," in Watson and Ebrey, Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1992. "Women, Money, and Class: Ssu‑ma Kuang and NeoConfucian Views on Women," in Zhongguo jinshi shehui wenhua  shilun wenji. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology,  Academia Sinica.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1993a. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of  Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Berkeley: University of  California Press.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1993b. "Women and Malace in Hung Mai's I‑chien chih," in Yanagida Setsuko sensei koki kinen Chugoku no dento shakai to kazoku. Tokyo.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1995. "Marriage Among the Song Elite," in Chinese Historical Microdemography, ed. Stevan Harrell. Berkeley:  University of California Press.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 2002. Women and the Family in Chinese History. NY: Routledge.
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• Edwards, Louise. 1990a. "Gender Imperatives in Honglou meng:  Baoyu's Bisexuality." Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 12:57‑69.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1990b. "Women in Honglou meng, Prescriptions of Purity  in the Femininity of Qing Dynasty China." Modern China  16.4:407‑29.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1993. "Representations of Women and Social Power in  Eighteenth Century China: The Case of Wang Xifeng, " Late Imperial China 14.1:34‑59.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1994. Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in the Red Chamber Dream.  Leiden: Brill.
• Elvin, Mark. 1984. "Female Virtue and the State in China." Past and Present 104:111‑152.
  
• Feigon, Lee. 1992. "Gender and the Chinese Student Movement," in Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China: Learning  from 1989, ed. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry.  Boulder: Westview Press
• Feuerwerker, Yi‑tsi. 1975. "Women as Writers in the 1920s and  1930s." In Wolf and Witke, op. cit.
• Finnane, Antonia and Anne McLaren, eds., Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture (Clayton, Vic.: Monash Asia Institute, 1998)  [see contents]
• Fitzgerald, Charles P. 1957. The Empress Wu. Melbourne:  Cheshire.
• Franke, Herbert. 1980. "Women Under the Dynasties of Conquest,"  in La Donna nella Cina Imeriale e nell Cina Repubblicana ed.  Lionello Lanciotti. Florence: Leo S. Olschki.
• Freedman, Maurice. 1979. "Rites and Duties, or Chinese Marriage,"  in The Study of Chinese Society, ed. G. William Skinner.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Furth, Charlotte. 1986. "Blood, Body and Gender: Medical Images  of the Female Condition in China," Chinese Science 7:53‑65.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1987. "Concepts of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Infancy in  Ch'ing Dynasty China," Journal of Asian Studies 46:7‑35.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1988. "Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology  and Gender Boundaries in 16th‑ and 17th‑Century China," Late Imperial China 9:1‑31.
• ‑‑‑‑‑.   A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960‑1665 . Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999
• Gallagher, Mary. "Women and Gender," in Howard Giskin and Bettye S. Walsh, eds., An Introduction to Chinese Culture Through the Family. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.
• Gallin, Bernard and Rita S. Gallin. 1985. "Matrilateral and  Affinal Relationships in Changing Chinese Society," in The Chinese Family and its Ritual Behavior, eds. Hsieh Jih‑chang and  Chuang Ying‑chang. Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of  Ethnology.
• Gamble, Sidney D.  1943.  "The Disappearance of Foot‑Binding in Tinghsien," American Journal of Sociology, vol. 49 (#2), pp. 181‑183.
• Gates, Hill. 1989. "The Commoditization of Chinese Women," Signs 14:  .
• Gerstlacher et al. 1985. Woman and Literature in China. Bochum:  Studienverlag Brockmeyer.
• Gilmartin, Christina. Gender, Politics and Patriarchy in China:  The Experiences of Early Women Communists, 1920‑1927, In  Promissory Notes, ed. Rayna Rapp and Marilyn Young: Monthly  Review Press.
• ‑‑‑‑‑, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White, ed. 1994.  Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State. Cambridge:  Harvard University Press.
• Gipoulon, Caterine. 1989/90. "The Emergence of Women in Politics  in China, 1898‑1927" Chinese Studies in History 23:46‑67.
• Goodman, Bryna and Wendy Larson, eds. 2005. Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Goody, Jack. 1990. The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive:  Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre‑Industrial  Societies of Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Greenhalgh, Susan.  1977.  "Bound Feet, Hobbled Lives: Women in Old China," Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 2 (#1), pp. 7‑21 (Spring 1977).
• Gronewold, Sue. 1982. Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in  China 1860‑1936. New York: Institute for Research in History  and the Hasworth Press.
  
• Guisso, R. W. L. 1978. Wu Tse‑t'ien and the Politics of  Legitimation in T'ang China. Bellingham, Wash.: Western Washington University Program in East Asian Studies Occasional  Papers.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1981. "Thunder Over the Lake: The Five Classics and the  Perception of Woman in Early China." In Guisso and Johannesen,  op. cit.
• ‑‑‑‑‑, and Stanley Johannesen, ed. 1981. Women in China.  Youngstown, N.Y.: Philo.
• Handlin, Joanna F. 1975. "L K'un's New Audience: The Influence  of Women's Literacy on Sixteenth‑Century Thought." In Wolf and  Witke, op. cit.
• Harper, Donald. 1987. "The Sexual Arts of Ancient China as  Described in a Manuscript of the Second Century B. C." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 47:539‑94.
• Harrell, Stevan. 1986. "Men, Women, and Ghosts in Taiwanese Folk  Religion," in Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of  Symbols, eds. Caroline Walker Bynum, Stevan Harrell and Paula  Richman. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Hershatter, Gail. 1989. AThe Hierarchy of Shanghai Prostitution, 1919‑1949,@ Modern China 15.4: 463‑97.
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• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1991. "Prostitution and the Market in Women in Early  Twentieth‑Century Shanghai," in Watson and Ebrey, Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1992. ARegulating Sex in Shanghai: The Reform of  Prostitution in 1920 and 1951,@ in Frederic Wakeman and Yeh Wenhsin, eds. Shanghai Sojourners. Berkeley: Center for Chinese  Studies, pp. 145‑86.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1992. ACourtesans and Streetwalkers: The Changing  Discourse on Shanghai Prostitution, 1890‑1949,@ Journal of the  History of Sexuality 3.2:245‑69.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 2007. Women in China's Long Twentieth Century. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
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• Hinton, Carma and Richard Gordon. 1984. "Small Happiness" (documentary film). Philadelphia: Long Bow Group.
• Holmgren, Jennifer. 1981. "Widow Chastity in the Northern  Dynasties: The Lieh‑nu Biographies in the Wei‑shu," Papers on Far Eastern History 23:165‑86.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1981‑83. "Women and Political Power in the Traditional  T'o‑pa Elite: A Preliminary Study of the Biographies of  Empresses in the Wei‑shu," Monumenta Serica 35:33‑74.
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• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1985. "The Economic Foundations of Virtue: Widow Remarriage in Early and Modern China," Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 13:1‑27.
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• Hooper, Beverly. 1984. AChina=s Modernization: Are Young Women  Going to Lose Out?@ Modern China 10.3:317‑43.
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• Hsiung, Ping‑chen. 1994. AConstructed Emotions: The Bonds  Between Mothers and Sons in Late Imperial China,@ Late Imperial  China 15.1:87‑177.
• Hu Ying. 1993 "Angling with Beauty: Women as Narrative Bait in The  Romance of the Three Kingdoms," Chinese Literature: Essays,  Articles, Reviews, 15:99‑112.
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• Jaschok, Maria. 1988. Concubines and Bondservants: The Social  History of a Chinese Custom. London: Zed Books.
• ‑‑‑‑‑, and Suzanne Miers, ed. 1994. Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission, Servitude and Escape. London: Zed Books.
• Jay, Jennifer. 1990. "Vignettes of Chinese Women in T'ang Xi'an  (618‑906): Individualism in Wu Zetian, Yang Guifei, Yu Xuanji  and Li Wa," Chinese Culture 31.1:77‑89.
• Judd, Ellen R. 1989. "Niangjia: Chinese Women and their Natal Families." Journal of Asian Studies 48.3: 525‑44.
• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1990. "'Men are More Able': Rural Chinese Women's  Conceptions of Gender and Agency." Pacific Affairs 63:40‑62.
• ‑‑‑‑‑.   1994. Gender and Power in Rural North China. Stanford:  Stanford University Press.
• Johnson, Kay Ann. 1983. Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution  in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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• Kirkland, Russell. 1991. "Huang Ling‑wei: A Taoist Priestess in  T'ang China," Journal of Chinese Religions 19:47‑73.
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• ‑‑‑‑‑. 1994. Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture  in Seventeenth‑Century China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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Journals:

• Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender  in Early and Imperial China (Leiden:  E.J. Brill)
• Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context (Perth: Murdoch University, http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/ - online only)

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