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

Introduction: women's journals as multigeneric artefacts Joan Judge, Barbara Mittler and Michel Hockx; Part I. Methodologies: Framing, Constituting, and Regulating the Space of the Woman's Journal: 1. Persuading with pictures: cover art and The Ladies' Journal (1915-1931) Julia F. Andrews; 2. Engendering a journal: editors and nudes in petite and its global context Liying Sun; 3. Raising eyebrows: the journal Eyebrow Talk and the regulation of 'harmful fiction' in modern China Michel Hockx; Coda: women's journals through the prism of late Qing fiction Ellen Widmer; Part II. A Space of Their Own: The Woman's Journal, Generic Choice and the Making of Female Public Expression: Reflection: writers and readers: constituting the space of women's journals Jennifer Scanlon; 4. Radicalizing poetics: poetic practice in Women's World, 1904-1907 Grace Fong; 5. Redefining female talent: The Women's Eastern Times, The Ladies' Journal, and the development of 'women's art' in China Doris Sung; 6. Constituting the female subject: romantic fiction by women authors in Eyebrow Talk Jin-Zhu Huang; 7. Rebellious yet constrained: dissenting women's views on love and sexual morality in The Ladies' Journal and New Woman Rachel Hsu; 8. Voices of female educators in early twentieth-century women's magazines Siao-chen Hu; 9. 'Room for improvement': the ideal of the educational home in The Ladies' Journal Maria af Sandeberg; Part III. Gendered Space and Global Context: Foreign Models, Circulating Concepts and the Constitution of Female Subjectivities: Reflection lived and idealized self and other on the pages of the women's magazine Nathalie Cooke and Jennifer Garland; 10. Competing conceptualizations of Guo (country, state, and/or nation-state) in late Qing women's journals Nanxiu Qian; 11. Western heroines in late Qing women's journals: Meiji-Era writings on 'women's self-help' in China Xia Xiaohong; 12. Foreign knowledge of bodies: Japanese sources, western science, and China's republican lady Joan Judge; 13. 'Othering' the foreign other in Chinese women's magazines in the early twentieth century Paul Bailey; 14. The new (wo)man and her/his others: foreigners on the pages of China's women's magazines Barbara Mittler; Conclusion: a space of their own? Concluding reflections Harriet Evans.