WOMEN REVOLUTIONARIES IN CHINESE HISTORY, 1850 - 2000
topic choice and working bibliography

John H. Student
HIS 374, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China
Lee A. Makela
February 16, 2001

TOPIC:

An examination of the role and place of women in three periods of Chinese history as revolutionary figures and the degree to which they were influenced in each era by both the modernization process and westernization.

WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY

Greenhalgh, Susan. "Bound Feet, Hobbled Lives: Women In Old China." Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies (1997) 2.1:7-21.

Johnson, Kay Ann. Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Liu, Xiang. Lienu Zhuan [Traditions Of Exemplary Women]. Available online at < http://etext.virginia.edu/
chinese/lienu/browse/Lienu.html > (This is an online copy of Liu Xiang's biographical accounts of women in early China. The work served as a standard textbook for the moral education of women in traditional, Confucian China for two millenia. See Anne Behnke Kinney's Introduction (in English). Big5-encoded text now, English translation forthcoming in Summer 2000. The only earlier translation of the full volume into English was by Albert R. O'Hara in 1945.) Accessed Febraury 14, 2001.

McClaren, Anne E. "The Grievance Rhetoric of Chinese Women: From Lamentation to Revolution." Intersections (4). Available online at < http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue4/mclaren.html >. Accessed February 14, 2001.

"Unbreakable Spirits: Women Breaking Down Barriers in China", a 12-part, half hour radio series released by Artistic Circles and Public Radio International (PRI). Available online at <http://www.asiasource.org/
arts/unbreaksprts/unbreakable.cfm >. Accessed February 14, 2001.

Smedley, Agnes. Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution. Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1976.