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Dreaming the New Woman: An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China. By Jennifer Bond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 296 pp. $90 (cloth). - Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule. By Fang Yu Hu. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 304 pp. $110 (cloth), $35 (paper).

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Dreaming the New Woman: An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China. By Jennifer Bond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 296 pp. $90 (cloth).
Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule. By Fang Yu Hu. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 304 pp. $110 (cloth), $35 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2025

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Emma J. Teng*
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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , First View , pp. 1 - 5
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1 Croll, Elisabeth, Feminism and Socialism in China (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978), 319 Google Scholar. See also Judge, Joan, The Precious Raft of History: The Past, The West, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), 110–11CrossRefGoogle Scholar on this debate.

2 See Barlow, Tani E., The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004)Google Scholar, Hershatter, Gail, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)Google Scholar, Liu, Lydia He, Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity--China, 1900–1937 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Rofel, Lisa, Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also Hershatter, Gail, “State of the Field: Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century,” The Journal of Asian Studies 63.4 (2004), 991–1065 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Liu, Translingual Practice.