Women in China's Long Twentieth Century Gail Hershatter 2007, ISBN: 978-0-520-09856-5    —   View Table of Contents Published in association with the University of California Press      SUGGESTED CITATION: Gail Hershatter, Women in China's Long Twentieth Century: University of California Press / UC Global, Area, and International Archive, vol. #1, 2007. http://repositories.cdlib.org/gaia/gaia_books/1 “An important and much-needed introduction to a 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 modern 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. 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.