Acknowledgments . . ix

Introduction: Women and Feminism in the Literary History of Early Twentieth-Century China . . 1
1 National Imaginaries: Feminist Fantasies at the Turn of the Century . . 35
2 The New Woman's Women . . 65
3 Love and/or Revolution?: Fictions of the Feminine Self in the 1930s Cultural Left . . 103
4 Outwitting Patriarchy: Comic Narrative Strategies in the Works of Yang Jiang, Su Qing, and Zhang Ailing . . 137
5 A World Still to Win . . 171

Notes . . 201
Bibliography . . 245
Index . . 265