Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : feminism and gender discourse in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong / Kwok-kan Tam -- Women's self-identity and gender relations in twentieth-century Chinese fiction / Terry Siu-han Yip -- Gender construction, stereotyping and cross-gender writing / Kwok-kan Tam -- Feminist literary criticism in China since the mid-1990s / Lin Shuming and He Songyu -- Food, body and female subjectivity : reading between Western and Chinses perspectives / Jessica Tsui Yan Li -- Women as human vs. women as women : female consciousness in modern Chinese women's literature / Qiao Yigang -- Liberation of femininity? Women's poetry in post-Mao China / Lisa Lai-ming Wong -- Gender construction in the novels of Zhang Kangkang and Liang Xiaosheng / Suying Yang -- Feminist critique : the patriarchal discourse of Chinese male writers / Sheng Ying -- Three Chinese women writers and the city in the 1990s / Jin Yanyu -- New modes of women's writing in the age of materialism / Guo Shumei -- Writing women's literary history : gender discourse and women's literature in Taiwan / Mei-hwa Sung -- The subaltern women's voice and the (film- )making of modern Taiwan / Kuei-fen Chiu -- Desire, fear and gender in Dong Qizhang's novel Dual body / Kwok-kan Tam -- Men aren't men : feminization of the masculine subject in the works of some Hong Kong male writers / Kwai-Cheung Lo.