Gail Hershatter is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among her books is Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai.
5 Ebooks by Gail Hershatter
Gail Hershatter: Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century
This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women’s history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more …
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€40.99
Gail Hershatter: The Gender of Memory
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of …
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€38.99
Isabel Brown Crook & Christina Kelley Gilmartin: Prosperity’s Predicament
This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about Chinas rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social …
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€50.13
Gail Hershatter: Dangerous Pleasures
This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassé elites, prostitutes …
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€72.99
