He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminis...

The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originate...

An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for ...

Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and t...

Rejecting both popular image and accepted Western and Chinese scholarship on the status of women ...

This volume, which brings together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and...

Dorothy Ko is professor of history at Barnard College. She is the author of Cinderella¿s Sisters:...

'Ko challenges simplistic depictions of women as victims and argues that within their social and ...

Follows the path of an everyday object, from quarry to deskAn inkstone, a piece of polished stone...

Footbinding originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry famili...