Women in the New Taiwan Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society

Susan Mann is currently a member of the Department of History at the University of California, Davis, and was president of the Association for Asian Studies (1999-2000). She specializes in the history of late Imperial China and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the study of Chinese women's history. Ping-chen Hsiung did her Ph.D. on the history of late imperial China at Brown University. She is a member of the Institute of Modern History at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. She has also taught in major universities in the United States. Her research and writing focuses upon the history of childhood and on the history of health care in imperial China. She has also helped redefine the nature of the high-school history curriculum on Taiwan. Emma Teng did her doctoral work in Chinese literature at Harvard University. She is now a member of the history faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in Asian-American literature and Chinese literature. Her main area of research is Chinese colonial travel literature and the colonization of Taiwan. She has published a book on the history of Taiwan's international relations and articles on Chinese women's studies, gender in Asian-American literature, and Chinese travel literature. Sue Gronewold teaches Asian history and women's studies in the History Department of Kean University in New Jersey. Her research interests focus on women in twentieth-century China and on cultural encounters between Chinese and Western women. Her book, Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China 1860-1937, was published by Haworth Press (1982). She is revising for publication her 1996 Columbia University dissertation, "Encountering Hope: The Door of Hope Mission in Shanghai and Taipei 1900-1976." Hsin-yi Lu obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Washington. She is assistant professor in social and behavioral sciences at the University of Southern Maine at Lewiston-Auburn, where she teaches cultural anthropology and global studies. She is the author of The Politics of Locality: Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan (Routledge, 2002). Fang-chih Irene Yang did her Ph.D in speech communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and most recently joined the faculty in the Department of English of National Dong-Hwa University in Hualien, Taiwan. She has published articles and given conference papers on issues related to media, feminism, and Taiwanese educational opportunities. Robert M. Marsh, a professor of sociology at Brown University, is a prominent scholar of social change on Taiwan. His most recent book is The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei Since the 1960s (M.E. Sharpe, 1996). His current research focuses on social capital, organizational participation, and trust in Taiwan. Avron Boretz received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell University. He is a member of the faculty in the Department of Asian Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has done extensive research on religious groups and martial arts troupes in southeastern Taiwan and on gender relations on Taiwan and has published articles in a number of recent edited volumes both in Taiwan and in the United States. Paul E. Festa is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Cornell University and is currently completing a doctoral dissertation on friendship, masculinity, and the nation in Taiwan. He is the author of "Mahjong Politics in Contemporary China: Civility, Chineseness, and Mass Culture," in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (forthcoming). Hwei-syin Lu has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a member of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, for many years, doing research and writing important articles about issues concerning women on Taiwan. She is currently on the faculty of the Institute of Religion and Culture at Tzu Chi University in Hualien, Taiwan. Yu-hsiu Liu is a professor of English in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University. She is an influential figure on gender issues and grassroots organization empowerment in Taiwan. Ping-chun Hsiung did her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches sociology at the Scarborough College/University of Toronto. She does research on women in the workplace, feminism, and related topics. She has written Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory System in Taiwan (Temple University Press, 1996). She also co-edited, with Maria Jaschok and Cecilia N. Milwertz, Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers (Berg Publishers, 2002). Richard C. Kagan is a member of the history faculty at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has written and edited numerous books and articles on religion and society in Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asia.Anru, Lee is the author of 'Women in the New Taiwan Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society' with ISBN 9780765608147 and ISBN 0765608146.