Women's place in Chinese history / Hu Shi -- Female rulers in ancient China / Yang Liansheng -- Feminist thought in ancient China / Lin Yutang -- Influences of foreign cultures on the Chinese women / Chen Hengzhe -- The Chinese woman past and present / Zeng Baosun -- Chinese women's fight for freedom / Song Qingling -- Historical roots of changes in women's status in modern China / Li Youning -- Opposition to footbinding / Zhang Mojun -- Remembrances of an elderly aunt / Chen Hengzhe -- When I learned how to cook / He Xiangning -- Remembrances of the May Fourth Movement / Deng Yingchao -- The family prison / Xie Bingying -- My escape from hardship to a free life / Xiuying -- Sorrows of a factory worker / Lu Lan -- A village schoolteacher / Fu Yixing -- Scientific entrepreneurship / Hongying -- Struggling against discrimination in business / Anonymous -- Shenshen / Xiangcun -- Problems confronting an ideal couple / A Rong -- Mother's books / Pan Qijun -- Why I parted with Tang Na / Jiang Qing -- My life in the imperial palace / Li Yuqin -- A young nurse in Manchuria / Chen Xuezhao.