Foreword / Howard Goldblatt
Introduction / Tani E. Barlow
The Language of Despair: Ideological Representations of the "New Woman" by May Fourth Writers / Ching-kiu Stephen Chan
Invention and Intervention: The Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature / Lydia H. Liu
The End of "Funu Wenxue": Women's Literature from 1925 to 1935 / Wendy Larson
Woman as Trope: Gender and Power in Lu Xun's "Soap" / Carolyn T. Brown
Virtuous Transactions: A Reading of Three Short Stories by Ling Shuhua / Rey Chow
Images of Subjugation and Defiance: Female Characters in the Early Dramas of Tian Han / Randy Kaplan
Female Images and National Myth / Meng Yue
Writing with Your Body: Literature as a Wound
Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting / Wolfgang Kubin
Harmony and Equality: Notes on "Mimosa" and "Ark" / Chen Yu-shih
Three Interviews: Wang Anyi, Zhu Lin, Dai Qing / Wang Zheng
In the Translator's Eye: On the Significance of Zhu Lin / Richard King
Yuan Qiongqiong and the Rage for Eileen Zhang among Taiwan's Feminine Writers / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
Taking Tiger Mountain: Can Xue's Resistance and Cultural Critique / Jon Solomon
Feminism in the Chinese Context: Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife / Sheung-Yuen Daisy Ng
Political Evaluation and Reevaluation in Contemporary Chinese Fiction / Margaret H. Decker.
