PAUL BAILEY is professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Durham, UK. He previously taught at Lingnan College, Hong Kong, and the University of Edinburgh, UK. His previous publications include Gender and Education in China (2007) and China in the Twentieth Century (2001).

'Bailey draws on, and synthesizes, a wealth of scholarship produced on gender in modern China over the last few decades. Easy to read and full of very interesting examples, this is an accessible and informative text.' - Emily Honig, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

• IntroductionWomen in Pre-Twentieth-Century ChinaReform, Nationalism and the 'Woman Question', 1897-1912Gender Discourses in the Early Republic'A World Turned Upside Down': Mobilising Women for the RevolutionWomen in the City and Countryside before 1949The New Communist State and Marriage Reform: 'Public Patriarchy' in Practice?'Women Hold Up Half the Sky': The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural RevolutionWomen and Socioeconomic Change in the Post-Mao EraConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

PAUL BAILEY is professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Durham, UK. He previously taught at Lingnan College, Hong Kong, and the University of Edinburgh, UK. His previous publications include Gender and Education in China (2007) and China in the Twentieth Century (2001).

'Bailey draws on, and synthesizes, a wealth of scholarship produced on gender in modern China over the last few decades. Easy to read and full of very interesting examples, this is an accessible and informative text.' - Emily Honig, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

• IntroductionWomen in Pre-Twentieth-Century ChinaReform, Nationalism and the 'Woman Question', 1897-1912Gender Discourses in the Early Republic'A World Turned Upside Down': Mobilising Women for the RevolutionWomen in the City and Countryside before 1949The New Communist State and Marriage Reform: 'Public Patriarchy' in Practice?'Women Hold Up Half the Sky': The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural RevolutionWomen and Socioeconomic Change in the Post-Mao EraConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.