Critical issues in world and international history
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-386) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The gendered labor of empire, 1800-1840 -- Disturbances, 1840-1900 -- Revolutionary currents, 1895-1912 -- Imagined futures, 1912-1927 -- Regulatory regimes, 1928-1937 -- Wartime women, 1928-1941 -- Wartime women, 1935-1949 -- The socialist construction of women, 1949-1978 -- Capitalized women, 1978-
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This groundbreaking book traces China's modern history though the lives of women, Gail Hershatter provides the first comprehensive introduction to the changes in Chinese women's lives--and in the shared social ideas about what women should do and be--over the past two centuries of profound change on the Chinese mainland"--