Witke Roxane Editors (9 results)

Reprint. ix + 315pp, notes, index, couple markings lower endpaper, closed tear on spine, lightly worn paperback covers, otherwise good copy. The 10 papers in this collection cover a wide range of topics - seventeenth century attitudes toward women (Joanna F. Handlin), the female revolutionary leader Ch'iu Chin (Mary Backus Rankin), an "anti-marriage" movement in rural Kwangtung (Marjorie Topley), female suicide in Taiwan before 1945 (Margery Wolf), the variety in women's life courses (Arthur P. Wolf), influential women writers of the 1920's and 1930's (Yi-tsi Feuerwerker), the early years of Mao's wife, Chiang Ch'ing (Roxane Witke), women and ritual pollution (Emily M. Ahern), women and social change in Hong Kong (Elizabeth L. Johnson), and the effect on rural women of the advent of the People's Republic (Delia Davin).…

Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood paperback, stamp and writing on half title page, some light marking in text. Edgewear, light creasing and tanning to cover. 315 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Good hardback copy, slight foxing to outside edge of pages, no dustjacket. x, 315pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Good hardback copy, usual ex-(university) library markings but clean, no dustjacket. x, 315pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Good hardback copy in slightly shelfworn dustjacket. x, 315pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Good hardback copy in shelfworn dustjacket. x, 315pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Good hardback copy in good dustjacket. x, 315pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: As New. First Edition. original cloth 315pp. A multidisciplinary collection attempting to provide a baseline for understanding the massive changes in Chinese women's lives. Articles by Joanna F. Handlin, Mary Backus Rankin, Marjorie Topley Arthur P. Wolf, Yi-Tsi Feuerwerker, Emily M. Ahern, Elizabeth Johnson, Delia Davin & others.…

orig.cloth. Condition: Minor rubbing. VG. 22x14cm, x, 315 pp. Contains 10 papers. includes: J.F. Handlin "Lü K'un's New Audience: The Influence of Women's Literacy on 16th-Century Thought"; M.B. Rankin "The Emergence of Women at the End of the Ch'ing: The Case of Ch'iu Chin"; M. Topley "Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung"; A.P. Wolf "The Women of Hai-shan: A Demographic Portrait"; M. Wolf "Women & Suicide in China"; Y.- T- Feuerwerker "Women as Writers in the 1920s & 1930s"; R. Witke "Chiang Ch'ing's Coming of Age"; E.M. Ahern "The Power & Pollution of Chinese Women"; E. Johnson "Women & Childbearing in Kwan Mun Hau Village: A Study of Social Change"; D. Davin "Women in the Countryside of China".…