Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity

Cheryl C. D. Hughes is Professor Emerita at Tulsa Community College. She is the author of Katherine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Story of an American Catholic Saint.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceCheryl C. D. HughesIntroductionEmma Jinhua Teng1. Emily Georgiana Kemp: An Early Twentieth-Century Traveler's Perspective on the Heart-Mind of ChinaDona M. Cady2. Women's Agency at the Close of Ming Dynasty China: Vulnerability, Violation, and Vengeance in Ling Mengchu's Vernacular Short StoriesMarla Hoffman Lunderberg3. A Flight of Cultural Imagination in Heian Japan: The Image of Yang Guifei in Genji monagatori and "Chang hen ge" Catherine Ryu4. Women Generals and Martial Maidens: China's Warrior Women in History, Literature, and FilmCheryl C. D. Hughes5. Women in Male Roles: Cross-Dressed Actresses in Early Twentieth-Century ChinaLaura Xie6. Pavilion of Women: Gender Politics and Global Cultural TranslatabilityJinhua Li7. Gendered Screens: Women, Space, and Social Transformation in the Works of Contemporary Chinese Female FilmmakersYanhong Zhu8. Women in Chinese Visual Art over the Past CenturyShelley Drake Hawks9. "Lessons for Women": From The Good Earth to Leftover WomenJessica A. Sheetz-NguyenIndex

"This edited volume brings together a set of fascinating studies on women crossing boundaries of various kinds in Chinese literature, art, and film, adding richness and nuance to an expanding field of studies on Chinese women. The book will appeal to general readers and students as well as to scholars interested not only in Chinese women's history but in Asian literatures and cultural histories more broadly." — Binbin Yang, author of Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories