Men and women in Qing China Book

	Preface
	List of Abbreviations
I	Explication of Theory	1
II	Hongxue Before 1949	10
	Miscellaneous critiques	14
	Small details school	18
	Hidden meaning school	21
	Western influence and Wang Guowei	25
	Hu Shi, Yu Pingbo and New Hongxue	26
	Hongxue of the 1940s	30
III	Gender imperatives: Jia Baoyu's Bisexuality	33
	Theoretical background	34
	Baoyu's bisexuality	37
	Phallogocentricism reinforced	43
IV	Young Women and Prescriptions of Purity	50
	Sacred women	51
	Interaction between mythic and mimetic realms	56
	Married/Unmarried: The power of pollution	58
	The womanly virtue of chastity	62
V	Wang Xifeng: Young Women and Power	68
	The absence of a victim	70
	Chaos manifested in confusing yin with yang	71
	Chaos manifested in yin subduing yang	76
	Daughters-in-law as motifs of decay	82
VI	Domesticating the Woman Warrior: Comparisons with Jinghua yuan	87
	Fourth Sister Lin and the Jinghua yuan warriors	92
	Filial piety, loyalty and the Amazons	97
	Moral mirrors for society	103
	The sexualized woman warrior	107
	Disruptive potential	111
VII	Jia Family Women: Unrestrained 'Indulgent Mothers'	113
	Ci mu as destroyer of children	115
	Decline of the yan fu	119
	Immoral sons: Products of bad mothering	125
VIII	Men of the Jia Clan: Responsible or Degenerate	130
	Education: An indicator of morality	132
	Adherence to legal and ritual customs	134
	Empty attention to propriety	138
IX	Hongxue After 1949 and Gender Equality	142
	Origins of Hongxue's discourse of sexual equality	143
	Interaction between sex and class	146
	Comparing social systems	148
	A discourse perpetuating inequality	152
	Bibliography of English Materials	162
	Bibliography of Chinese Materials	168
	Index	176