Announcement from the University of California Press

Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Gail Hershatter is Professor of History and Director of the Institute
for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Among her books is Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity
in Twentieth-Century Shanghai.

http://go.ucpress.edu/Hershatter

"An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and
fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with
aplomb." -Susan L. Glosser, author of _Chinese Visions of Family and
State, 1915-1953_


This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's
history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century
China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than
650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of
marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the
process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about
the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields.
The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful
reflection on how we approach the past.

Full information about the book is available online:
http://go.ucpress.edu/Hershatter