ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction: Theorizing Femininities and Masculinities -- PART ONE: Gender and the Law -- 1. Femininity in Flux: Gendered Virtue and Social Conflict in the Mid-Qing Courtroom -- 2. Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males, and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law -- PART TWO: Ideals of Marriage and Family -- 3. Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid-Qing Period -- 4. "The Truths I Have Learned": Nationalism, Family Reform, and Male Identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923 -- PART THREE: Gender in Literary Traditions -- 5. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature -- 6. The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature -- PART FOUR: Dangerous Women and Dangerous Men -- 7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai -- 8. Approximations of Chinese Bandits: Perverse Rebels, Romantic Heroes, or Frustrated Bachelors? -- PART FIVE: The Gender of Rebels -- 9. Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards -- 10. "Little Brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: The Worker Rebels of Shanghai -- PART SIX: Blood, Qi, and the Gendered Body -- 11. Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China, 1600 -1850 -- 12. Embodying Qi and Masculinities in Post-Mao China -- PART SEVEN: Shifting Contexts of Gender and Sexuality -- 13. Past, Perfect or Imperfect: Changing Images of the Ideal Wife -- 14. Proper Men and Proper Women: Parental Affection in the Chinese Family -- PART EIGHT: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity -- 15. Gender and Internal Orientalism in China -- 16. Tradition and the Gender of Civility -- Afterword: Putting Gender at the Center -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.