The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two
decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to …

For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related
to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the …

" I was swept into the world of Hershatter's Gender of Memory. Each of these oral histories is
riveting and astonishing, giving a human--and often, heartbreaking--dimension to history. As …

Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China—political, cultural, and economic—
has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social …

Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women's status and paid
work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two …

The Fourth United Nations Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 marked a
watershed in the history of Chinese feminism But so far, little has been written, either in …

摘要传统村落的集体记忆承载着村庄的文化传统与人们的乡愁情感. 但随着城镇化及其带来的大
规模人口迁徙, 使得这些记忆正面临巨大冲击. 就此展开研究, 对于乡村规划和发展 …

Chinese New Year. Such reluctance was expected of new (and even not so new) wives; it
was a crucial element of the extended natal residence marriage (chang zhu niangjia) …

Here is a convincing reflection that changes our understanding of gender in Maoist culture,
esp. for what critics from the 1990s onwards have termed its erasure of gender and …

Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing's “old
city” in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar—one of the capital city's …