What should Chinese women wear? A national problem / Antonia Finnane -- Commercialisation and prostitution in nineteenth century Shanghai / Ye Xiaoqing -- Images of women in popular prints / Tanya Mcintyre -- History and other metaphors in Chinese-Mosuo relations since 1956 / Christine Mathieu -- Writing the female radical: the encoding of women in the writing system / Kate Burridge & Ng Bee-Chin -- Gender and the classification of Chinese characters / Bob Hodge & Kam Louie -- On researching invisible women: abduction and violation in Chinese women's script writing / Anne McLaren -- Consolidating a socialist patriarchy: the women writers' industry and 'feminist' literary criticism / Louise Edwards -- Representing Chinese women: researching women in the Chinese cinema / Chris Berry -- Engendering women: Taiwan's recent fiction by women / Rosemary Haddon -- Women's studies in literature and feminist literary criticism in contemporary China / Rosemary Roberts -- Researching women's lives in contemporary China / Beverly Hooper -- Researching women's work and gender divisions of labour in the PRC / Tamara Jacka