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Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present Women and Gender in China Studies Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present Women and Gender in China Studies Edited by Grace S. Fong McGill University Editorial Board Louise Edwards Gail Hershatter Robin D.S. Yates Harriet T. Zurndorfer VOLUME 1 Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present A Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages By Robin D.S. Yates LEIDEN • BOSTON 2009 On the cover: “Marriage Ceremony” by an unknown Chinese artist (late nineteenth century) from a set of album-size paintings detailing the stages in the life of a man (author’s collection). This book is printed on acid-free paper. Yates, Robin D. S., 1948- Women in China from earliest times to the present : a bibliography of studies in Western languages / by Robin D.S. Yates. p. cm. — (Women and gender in China studies ; v. 1) Includes index. ISBN 978-90-04-17622-5 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women—China—Bibliography. I. Title. II. Series. Z7964.C5Y38 2009 [HQ1767] 016.30540951—dc22 2009022349 ISSN 1877-5772 ISBN 978 90 04 17622 5 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands For Mary Violet Yates and Tse Quanchuan My Mother and Mother-in-law Two remarkable women T ABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Alphabetic Listing by Author’s Name 5 Doctoral Dissertations and Master’s Theses 192 Index 201 Anthropology and Sociology 201 Art and Archaeology 206 Demography 207 Economics 208 Education 210 Fashion 211 Film and Media Studies 211 History 212 Interdisciplinary Studies 218 Law 220 Literature 220 Medicine, Science, and Technology 223 Music 225 Political Science 225 Religion and Philosophy 226 Studies on Women in Hong Kong 229 Studies on Women in Taiwan 229 Index of Doctoral Dissertations and Master’s Theses 231 I NTRODUCTION This bibliography was originally prepared as part of the recommended readings for the course, “History of Women in China,” that I started to teach in the Department of History, McGill University, ten years ago, in 1999. Taught as a seminar that requires no knowledge of the Chinese language, this course covers selected issues in women’s history from neolithic and early Bronze Age China down to contemporary times. As befitting the interdisciplinary nature of women’s studies, over the years students have chosen to research many different topics from a wide vari- ety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Thus it was necessary for me to provide guidance on secondary sources in many disciplines on subjects ranging from ancient times to today. I have learned greatly from lead- ing the discussions and guiding students as they prepared their research essays: they have discovered many fascinating titles and contributed much to the comprehensiveness of this bibliography. I wish to express my thanks to them for all their efforts and insights that they brought to enrich the class. On March 12, 2000, I shared an earlier version with my fellow panel- ists and members of the audience at the round table “Research on Women and Gender in Imperial China: Methods, Issues, Critiques, Future Directions,” held at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, and sponsored by Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China. Most recently, Professor Clara Wing-chung Ho, of the Hong Kong Baptist University, generously invited me to share a significantly expanded version with the participants in the confer- ence she organized at her institution, the “International Conference on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History,” June 21–22, 2007. Subse- quently, the editor of Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, Pro- fessor Harriet Zurndorfer, equally generously invited me to prepare it for publication. I extend my gratitude to them both for their support and encouragement, and to Patricia Radder of Brill, for guiding this bibliog- raphy to publication with remarkable speed and professionalism. Special thanks are due to my wife and intellectual partner, Grace S. Fong, who has enriched my life immeasurably, and given me innumerable leads to enhance the literature entries, and to those research assistants who have helped me specifically in editing, correcting, and inserting addi- tional entries, especially Eavan Cully and Susie Quek. Andrew Griffin 2 Introduction has prepared the index with impeccable skill, thought, and carefulness, Rebecca Robinson has checked the final draft, and David Goodrich has typeset the book with his usual professionalism and precision. Many thanks to them. Finally, I want to thank those scholars who have, often at the last minute, provided me with information about their own and others’ publications. They include Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Clara Ho, Dorothy Ko, Livia Kohn, Lydia H. Liu, Susan Mann, Geoffrey MacCormack, Song Lina, Ellen Soullière, Yao Ping, among many others. I should emphasize that this is by no means a complete bibliography of all writings in western languages on women in China. I have concen- trated on gathering material published in the last twenty years or so, since the publication of Women in China: Bibliography of Available Eng- lish Language Materials by Lucie Cheng et al. (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1984; revised edition, ed. Cheng Luqian 成露茜 (Lucie Cheng) Jindai Zhongguo funü shi yingwen ziliao mulu 近代中國婦女史英文資料目錄 (Taibei: Zhongyang yanjiuyuan Jindaishi yanjiusuo, 1996). In particular, I have not included transla- tions of the writings of twentieth-century Chinese women authors and the coverage of secondary sources on their works is not as extensive as I would have liked.1 Nor have I included many works on Chinese women in the diaspora, in south-east Asia, or in other parts of the globe, or works on Asian-American women. Limitations of space preclude including more. In addition, nowadays there is a great amount of infor- mation available on women in China on the internet. I have chosen to include only a small number of articles on the web that have inherent academic value and are not to be found in print. Nevertheless, the large number of titles in so many disciplines listed here is a strong testament to the vibrancy of the field of studies of women in China. No longer can it be claimed that women were passive, silent onlookers to China’s historical drama. In the past, they were full part- ners with Chinese men in transforming Chinese culture and society, even though their activities may have been circumscribed by ideology, age, class, region, and personal choice. Today, they are playing an even greater role in all aspects of cultural, economic, literary, political, and social life. I expect the volume of studies on women both in the past and in contemporary society only to increase in volume as well as range and 1 For a useful review and comprehensive bibliography of publications on post-1949 writers, see Jeffrey C. Kinkley, “A Bibliographic Survey of Publications on Chinese Literature in Translation from 1949 to 1999,” in Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang, eds., Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000), pp. 239–86. Introduction 3 theoretical sophistication. I hope this bibliography will stimulate even more research into the many dimensions of Chinese women’s creative contributions to human achievement. Finally, I should say a word about the index. I am well aware that Women’s Studies are by nature interdisciplinary. However, since this is not an online resource that is full-text searchable, in order to make it easier to find materials, I have prepared an index according to author’s name and categorized the titles into fifteen disciplinary categories: Anthropology and Sociology; Art and Archaeology; Demography; Eco- nomics; Education; Fashion; Film and Media Studies; History; Interdis- ciplinary Studies; Law; Literature; Medicine, Science, and Technology; Music; Political Science; and Religion and Philosophy. I have also added two other categories, Studies on Women in Hong Kong and Studies on Women in Taiwan, in order to assist those who wish to locate materials specifically related to those two regions. I have also included a section at the end of the bibliography, also indexed according to disciplinary categories, listing Doctoral Disser- tations on Women in China. The coverage here is definitely less than I would have desired, partially due to the lack of a clearinghouse in E urope for the titles and abstracts of doctoral dissertations. Needless to say, many titles can be classified into two or more catego- ries. I have tried to be as comprehensive as possible, but undoubtedly I have missed correctly identifying and categorizing some titles since I have not had the opportunity to read each item. However, I hope that these categories have been conceived of in a sufficiently broad manner as to allow researchers to find the materials they need. As with all bibliographies, I am sure that errors remain. They are entirely my responsibility. I only hope what errors there are do not waste the time and patience of those who consult this book specifically to reduce the time and energy spent on locating citations relevant for their own research interests. To them, I apologize for the inconveniences they may be obliged to endure.
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