Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: the Twentieth Century 1912‐2000

Although the advent of the People’s Republic in 1949 undoubtedly transformed the lot of women, many would consider China to have remained a generally male dominated society. Only in very recent years with the modernization sweeping much of the country has the position of women, at least in major urban areas, begun to improve. The general invisibility of Chinese women is reflected in the few English language biographical dictionaries that have been published. Even in Klein and Clark (1971), a title one might have expected to contain a fair number of entries for women, only 18 of the 433 subjects...