Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-ix

Figures

pp x-xiii

Contributors

pp xiv-xix

Acknowledgements

pp xx-xxi

Note on Sources

pp xxii-xxiv

Preface: The Role of Gender in Defining the “Women's Magazine”

pp xxv-xxx

Introduction: - Women's Journals as Multigeneric Artefacts

pp 1-18

Part I - Methodologies: Framing, Constituting, and Regulating the Space of the Women's Journal

pp 19-98

1 - Persuading with Pictures: Cover Art and The Ladies’ Journal (1915–1931)

pp 21-56

2 - Engendering a Journal: Editors and Nudes in Linloon Magazine and Its Global Context*

pp 57-73

3 - Raising Eyebrows: The Journal Eyebrow Talk and the Regulation of “Harmful Fiction” in Modern China

pp 74-92

Coda: - Women's Journals through the Prism of Late Qing Fiction

pp 93-98

Part II - A Space of Their Own: The Woman's Journal, Generic Choice and the Making of Female Public Expression

pp 99-212

Reflection - Writers and Readers: Constituting the Space of Women's Journals

pp 101-103

4 - Radicalizing Poetics: Poetic Practice in Women's World, 1904–1907

pp 104-120

5 - Redefining Female Talent: The Women's Eastern Times, The Ladies’ Journal, and the Development of “Women's Art” in China, 1910s–1930s

pp 121-140

6 - Constituting the Female Subject: Romantic Fiction by Women Authors in Eyebrow Talk*

pp 141-157

7 - Rebellious Yet Constrained: Dissenting Women's Views on Love and Sexual Morality in The Ladies’ Journal and The New Woman

pp 158-175

8 - Voices of Female Educators in Early-Twentieth-Century Women's Magazines

pp 176-191

9 - Room for Improvement: The Ideal of the Educational Home in The Ladies’ Journal

pp 192-212

Part III - Gendered Space and Global Context: Foreign Models, Circulating Concepts, and the Constitution of Female Subjectivities

pp 213-331

Reflection - Lived and Idealized Self and Other in Women's Journals

pp 215-217

10 - Competing Conceptualizations of Guo (Country, State, and/or Nation-State) in Late Qing Women's Journals

pp 218-235

11 - Western Heroines in Late Qing Women's Journals: Meiji-Era Writings on “Women's Self-Help” in China

pp 236-254

12 - Foreign Knowledge of Bodies: Japanese Sources, Western Science, and China's Republican Lady

pp 255-281

13 - “Othering” the Foreign Other in Early-Twentieth-Century Chinese Women's Magazines

pp 282-301