Introduction : translating feminisms in China / Dorothy Ko and Wang Zheng -- Concepts of women's rights in modern China / Mizuyo Sudo -- Translating the new woman : Chinese feminists view the West, 1905-15 / Carol C. Chin -- Womanhood, motherhood and biology : the early phases of The ladies' journal 1915-25 / Yung-Chen Chiang -- Nationalist and feminist discourses on jianmei (robust beauty) during China's 'national crisis' in the 1930s / Yunxiang Gao -- Making a great leap forward? : the politics of women's liberation in Maoist China / Kimberley Ens Manning -- 'The silver flower contest' : rural women in 1950s China and the gendered division of labour / Gao Xiaoxian -- Rethinking the 'iron girls' : gender and labour during the Chinese cultural revolution / Jin Yihong -- Who is a feminist? : understanding the ambivalence towards Shanghai baby, 'body writing' and feminism in post-women's liberation China / Xueping Zhong.