Contributors

Contributors CHARLOTTE L. Beahan is professor of history at Murray State University in Kentucky. She has written several articles on the Chinese women's movement. Pl-CHING HSU is assistant professor in the Department of History at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota Ui 1994. She does research on premodern Chinese social and inteUectual history, with emphases on religion, philosophy, gender, and popular culture. DOROTHY Ko is working on a history of Chinese costumes and the concept of fashion, part of her quest for the meanings of footbinding in premodern Chinese eyes. Her earlier book, Teachers of the Inner Chambers (1994) is a study of women and the written word in the seventeenth century. She is associate professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. SUSAN Mann is professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford, 1997). RUTH ROGASKI is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. Her areas of specialization include urban history, the history of medicine, and the history of gender in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China. She recently completed her dissertation, "From Protecting the Body to Defending the Nation: The Emergence of PubUc Health in Tianjin, 18591953 " (Yale, 1996), and is currently working on a project about martial arts, race, and the formation of masculine identity in twentieth-century China. WENDY Sfnger is associate professor of South Asian history at Kenyon CoUege and director of its international studies program. Her book, Creating Histories: Oral Narratives and Rural Resistance in Colonial India, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. ANN WALTNER teaches in the history department at the University of Minnesota . Recent publications include Gender, Kinship, Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History (with Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Seland, and Ulrike Strasser [1996]) and Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China (1990). She has recently completed a book manuscript "The World of a Late Ming Mystic: T'an-yang-tzu and Her Followers" and is working on a book on women in China's past. 200 Journal of Women's History Winter Su ZHENG is an ethnomusicologist and assistant professor of music at Wesleyan University. Her recent publications include: "Redefining Yin and Yang: Transformation of Gender / Sexual Politics in Chinese Music" m Audible Traces: Music, Gender, and Identity, ed. Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley (1997) and "Music Making in Cultural Displacement: The Chinese American Odyssey," Diaspora (1994). She is currently completing a book on the diasporic culture of Chinese music Ui New York. She has recently been awarded a fellowship by the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China for her project, "The Gendering of Music and Women's Musical Traditions in Modern China." WANG Zheng is an affUiated scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of Nüxing de jueqi: dandai meiguo de nüquan yundong [A history of the contemporary feminist movement in the United States] (1995), and co-author of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society (1992). Her current work is a history of feminism in China's May Fourth era. ...