Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China (Nanxiu Qian, Grace S. Fong, and Richard J. Smith) -- PART ONE TRANSFORMATIONS OF GENDER ROLES -- 1. Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and the Erasure of "Talented Women" by Liang Qichao (Harriet T. Zurndorfer) -- 2. "Tossing the Brush"? Wu Zhiying (1868-1934) and the Uses of Calligraphy (Hu Ying) -- 3. Reconfi guring Time, Space, and Subjectivity: Lü Bicheng's Travel Writings on Mount Lu (Grace S. Fong) -- 4. From "Cainü" to "Nü Jiaoxi": Female Normal Schools and the Transformation of Women's Education in the Late Qing Period, 1895-1911 (Xiaoping Cong) -- PART TWO TRANSFORMATIONS OF GENRES -- 5. Mediated Imaginings: Biographies of Western Women and Their J apanese Sources in Late Qing China (Joan Judge) -- 6. Female Assassins, Civilization, and Technology in Late Qing Literature and Culture (Jing Tsu) -- 7. Patriotism Versus Love: The Central Dilemma of Zhan Kai's Novel Bihai zhu (Ellen Widmer) -- PART THREE THE PRODUCTION OF GENDER AND GENRES IN NEW PRINT MEDIA -- 8. Women in Shenbaoguan Publications, 1872-90 (Rudolf G. Wagner) -- 9. The Mother Nü xuebao versus the Daughter Nü xuebao: Generational Differences between 1898 and 1902 Women Reformers (Nanxiu Qian) -- 10. Tianyi bao and He Zhen's Views on "Women's Revolution" (Xia Xiaohong Translated by Hu Ying) -- 11. Male Gaze/Female Students: Late Qing Education for Women as Portrayed in Beijing Pictorials, 1902-08 (Chen Pingyuan Translated by Anne S. Chao) -- 12. The Construction of Gender and Genre in the 1910s New Media: Evidence from The Ladies' Journal (Siao-chen Hu) -- Suggested Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index.