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  • Bill Joseph: wjoseph@wellesley.edu
  • Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
  • Date Created: October 5, 1996
  • Last Modified: March 2008
  • Expires: June 30, 2008

WOMEN IN CHINA

Women in China's Long Twentieth Century, by Gail Hershatter, University of California Press (2007) Free On-line Edition

The Greatest Leap: How China's women have traveled from the ancient to the modern in four generations. A New York Times Magazine Special Report (1999) by SHERYL WUDUNN

Women in Chinese History: A Bibliography (University of Maine, Farmington)

Ling long Women's Magazine, Shanghai, 1931-37 (On-line Collection, Columbia University)

International Organizations

UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Beijing Office

Organizations Addressing Violence Against Women in China (UNIFEM)

China: Country Gender Review (World Bank, 2002)

Chinese Sites (in English)

All-China Women's Federation (Official Mass Organization)

China Women's News On-line

Women of China (PRC Magazine)

Rural Women (English web site for Chinese NGO)

Gender Equality and Women's Development in China: A Government White Paper (August 2005)

Women and Men in China Facts and Figures (State Statisitcal Bureau<,

The Situation of Chinese Women: A Government White Paper (June 1994)