Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)

【家內瘋癲：近世日本的婦女、照護與疾病】 為了抵禦來自美國與歐洲的 #帝國主義 ，19世紀的 #日本 致力於汲取全球最先進的思維與方法。到了1880年代，日本也接受衍伸自西方的精神病學，以及對精神疾病 的看法。首批日本精神病學家聲稱，病患應在專門機構中接受藥物治療，而非禁閉在家中。然而，國家並未施行社會福利政策，讓社會大眾得以負擔並接受新式的醫療服務。家庭──特別是婦女，因此持續負擔照護這些所謂「瘋子」的責任。

In China in recent years, one of the most dramatic and significant manifestations of modernization and globalization has been a massive increase in rural-to-urban migration. Termed the "floating population," and numbering upwards of 100 million, these rural migrants are at the front line of both domestic and global capitalist development, working for the lowest wages in occupat...(展开全部)

黄宗智（Philip C.C.Huang），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区（University of California，Los Angeles）历史系教授（1966—2004年），中国研究中心创办主任（1986～1995年），Modem China创刊编辑（1975年至今）。主要著作有《华北小农经济与社会变迁》、《经验与理论：中国社会、经济与法律的实践历史研究》，以及法律史的三卷本：《清代的法律、社会与文化：民法的表达与实践》、《法典、习俗与司法实践：清代与民国的比较》和《过去和现在：中国民事法律实践的探索》。

黄宗智（Philip C.C.Huang），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区（University of California，Los Angeles）历史系教授（1966—2004年），中国研究中心创办主任（1986～1995年），Modem China创刊编辑（1975年至今）。主要著作有《华北小农经济与社会变迁》、《经验与理论：中国社会、经济与法律的实践历史研究》，以及法律史的三卷本：《清代的法律、社会与文化：民法的表达与实践》、《法典、习俗与司法实践：清代与民国的比较》和《过去和现在：中国民事法律实践的探索》。

Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particul...(展开全部)

Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particul...(展开全部)

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter...(展开全部)

贺萧（Gail Hershatter），曾求学于美国汉普郡学院、中国南开大学、美国斯坦福大学，获斯坦福大学博士学位，曾任美国亚洲研究学会主席，现为加州大学圣克鲁斯分校历史系自身讲座教授。著有《天津工人，1900-1949》，《个人的声音：20世纪80年代的中国妇女》，《危险的愉悦：20世纪上海的娼妓问题和现代性》，《中国妇女在漫长的20世纪》，《记忆的性别：农村妇女和中国集体化历史》等。

The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model and provides a different account of the era, history as seen through the eyes of women. Basing her remarkable study on the poetry and memoirs of three generations of literary women of the Zhang fa...(展开全部)