Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture: Chung-Kuo Yin Wen Hua, I Cho Nu Hsing Yu Wen Tzu

Women's dress, women's writing, women's bodies, women's work, women as portrayed by themselves and others in literature and the these are among the topics addressed in this wide-ranging collection of essays written by scholars working in a number of different areas of Chinese studies. Until recently, academic studies of Chinese women inhabited the more exotic reaches of sinology. The present volume is a contribution to a body of scholarship which over the past ten years has succeeded in transforming the field.