Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group, this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical, social

The voices of ordinary women in China's War of Resistance against Japan

Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group, this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical, social

This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state po

Explores China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies, shedding new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation.