{"id":305,"date":"2007-09-24T21:02:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T02:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2007\/09\/20th-century-chinese-womens-history-for-undergraduates\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:39:59","slug":"20th-century-chinese-womens-history-for-undergraduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/09\/20th-century-chinese-womens-history-for-undergraduates\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Century Chinese Women's History for Undergraduates….."},"content":{"rendered":"

A blatant request for help1<\/a><\/sup>:<\/p>\n

I’m teaching my 20th century China course in the Spring, and book order season is upon us already! Last time I taught it<\/a>, I used Jung Chang’s Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China<\/i>, with some success. But I’m not sure if I want to use it again. The discussion of her biography of Mao<\/a> raised questions about the reliability of her earlier work — some implicit, some explicit — and I haven’t seen much to sway me one way or the other since then.<\/p>\n

I am going to have to think about how I’m going to address the Mao question, too, but first and foremost I’d like to know if there’s anything<\/i> out there which I could use with my students to address the basic questions of family, women, gender and life experience over the course of the 20th century?<\/p>\n

I’ve read through this bibliography of Chinese womens’ history<\/a>, and done some other looking around, but I really can’t find anything remotely comparable. I’m OK with using monographs or edited collections — it wouldn’t kill my students to wrestle with a little scholarship now and then — but I’m not finding anything that looks right.<\/p>\n

Any thoughts? <\/p>\n

  1. a bit more subtle than this<\/a>, but perhaps not  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A blatant request for help1: I’m teaching my 20th century China course in the Spring, and book order season is upon us already! Last time I taught it, I used Jung Chang’s Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, with some success. But I’m not sure if I want to use it again. The discussion of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-4V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}