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Dream of the Red Chamber Farming Treasury
Qidian · 2014
Suited to female-channel readers who enjoy Red Chamber fan fiction and farming-management stories. The draw is the protagonist running farms and busin…
From Sanitary Pads to IUDs: 20 Objects That Witnessed 200 Years of Feminism
Guizhou People's Publishing House · 2025
Following her book Patriarchy: A User's Guide, French historian Mathilde Larrère offers another work, originally published in French as Guns and Roses…
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2009
This is the representative work of Dorothy Ko, professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University. Originally published in English as Cinder…
Gorgeous and Bleak, Swimming Against the Stream: Private Readings of Republican-Era Women
Zhejiang University Press · 2013
Gorgeous and Bleak, Swimming Against the Stream: Private Readings of Republican-Era Women is an essay collection by writer Yi Bei, published by Zhejia…
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2020
In the winter of 1692, in the small town of Salem near Boston, a minister's niece began to twitch and scream, and soon the minister's daughter showed …
Runaway Wives: Life and Crime among Lower-Class Women in Wartime Beiping (1937–1949)
Shanghai Educational Publishing House · 2025
In the years between 1937 and 1949, Beijing (then Beiping) passed successively through Japanese occupation, the turmoil of war, and a change of regime…
What Happens After Nora Leaves: A Century of Reflection on Chinese Feminism
Dudao Society · 2025
In 1923, Lu Xun delivered a lecture at Beijing Women's Higher Normal School titled "What Happens After Nora Leaves," turning the woman who walks out o…
The Sparrows versus the Wolf Pack: The Wargame That Turned the Tide of War
Yilin Press · 2025
In the darkest years of World War II, German U-boats hunted in packs across the Atlantic under the "wolf pack" tactic, sinking Allied merchant ships i…
Mulan Nameless, Tiying Untraceable: Women's Joys and Sorrows Through the Lens of Legal History
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024
This book is a work of legal and cultural history that focuses on the fate of women in ancient China. Centered on women in the two types of "saving th…
The Underwear Course
CITIC Press · 2022
The Underwear Course is a full-length collection of cultural essays by Yu Xiaodan, an underwear designer, translator and writer. First published in 20…
Edo-period Edo City
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
In 1839, Tsuneno, aged thirty-five, left her home in Echigo Province and walked to Edo, then the capital. She had already been divorced three times, a…
From Sanitary Pads to IUDs: 20 Objects Witness 200 Years of Feminism
Guizhou People's Publishing House · 2025
Break gender bias—start by facing menstrual products squarely! "Since I had to choose a writing perspective, I wanted to keep only the objects tied to…
A Short History of Women's Rights
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Unofficial Biography of Zhao Feiyan
· 2025
A romance tale recounting the palace intrigues of Zhao Feiyan, empress of Emperor Cheng of Han, and her sister Hede. Through erotic narrative it expos…
Women and Property in China: 960–1949
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024
This is a scholarly monograph on the social history of law in China. Studies of property inheritance in China have mostly taken men as their subject, …
Late Qing Literati Views on Women (Revised and Enlarged Edition)
Peking University Press · 2025
This book takes the lives and thought of women in the late Qing as an independent object of study while attending to the social context of the period,…