Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Soldiering, war and gender in China
- 2 The archetypal woman warrior, Hua Mulan: Militarising filial piety
- 3 Qiu Jin: Transitioning from traditional swordswoman to feminist warrior
- 4 Xie Bingying opening public spaces to women Fighting patriarchy and fighting militarists
- 5 Aisin Gioro Xianyu: ‘Joan of Arc of the Orient’ or ‘Mata Hari of the East’?
- 6 Guerrilla resistance leader, Zhao Yiman: Warrior teacher and self-sacrificing CCP mother
- 7 Negotiating sexual virtue: The glamorous, honey-trap spy, Zheng Pingru
- 8 Ding Ling and Zhenzhen: Female chastity and good communist governance
- 9 Mobilising and militarising rural China through the girl martyr, Liu Hulan
- 10 Women warriors and wartime spies as tools for ‘total militarisation’: The Red Detachment of Women
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2016
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Soldiering, war and gender in China
- 2 The archetypal woman warrior, Hua Mulan: Militarising filial piety
- 3 Qiu Jin: Transitioning from traditional swordswoman to feminist warrior
- 4 Xie Bingying opening public spaces to women Fighting patriarchy and fighting militarists
- 5 Aisin Gioro Xianyu: ‘Joan of Arc of the Orient’ or ‘Mata Hari of the East’?
- 6 Guerrilla resistance leader, Zhao Yiman: Warrior teacher and self-sacrificing CCP mother
- 7 Negotiating sexual virtue: The glamorous, honey-trap spy, Zheng Pingru
- 8 Ding Ling and Zhenzhen: Female chastity and good communist governance
- 9 Mobilising and militarising rural China through the girl martyr, Liu Hulan
- 10 Women warriors and wartime spies as tools for ‘total militarisation’: The Red Detachment of Women
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016