Jianfeng Zhu is Professor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, No. 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, China (jfzhu@fudan.edu.cn). Horacio Ortiz is…

Jianfeng Zhu is Professor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, No. 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, China (jfzhu@fudan.edu.cn). Jiaqi Liu is…

Mei Ding is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, No. 220 Handan Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200433,…

Single women in China, socially stigmatised and marginalised as shengnü (剩女, literally, leftover women), are popular subjects of cultural productions that deserve but are yet…

Introduction The discourse on 淫 (yin, obscene/licentious/lascivious/pornographic) in early twentieth century China has been gradually attracting scholarly attention in recent years. Within this body of…

In her keynote address to the conference from which this special issue of China Perspectives has emerged, Prof. Gail Hershatter spoke of gender and “blindspotting”:…

Almost half a century has passed since Anglophone feminist scholars began to write about women in China’s twentieth-century revolutions (Young 1973; Wolf and Witke 1975;…