Learned women in the eighteenth century / Susan Mann -- From daughter to daughter-in-law in the women's script of southern Hunan / Cathy Silber -- Out of the traditional halls of academe: exploring new avenues for research on women / Chen Yiyun -- China's modernization and changes in the social status of rural women / Gao Xiaoxian -- Desire, danger, and the body: stories of women's virtue in late Ming China / Katherine Carlitz -- Rethinking Van Gulik: sexuality and reproduction in traditional Chinese medicine / Charlotte Furth -- Modernizing sex, sexing modernity: prostitution in early twentieth-century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter -- Male suffering and male desire: the politics of reading Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang / Zhong Xueping -- Gender, political culture, and women's mobilization in the Chinese Nationalist revolution, 1924-1927 / Christina K. Gilmartin -- Liberation nostalgia and a yearning for modernity / Lisa Rofel -- The origins of China's birth planning policy / Tyrene White -- Chinese women workers: the delicate balance between protection and equality / Margaret Y. K. Woo -- Women's consciousness and women's writing / Li Ziyun -- Women, illness, and hospitalization: images of women in contemporary Chinese fiction / Zhu Hong -- Politics and protocols of Funu: (un)making national woman / Tani E. Barlow -- Economic reform and the awakening of Chinese women's collective consciousness / Li Xiaojiang.