Contents: Depicting domestic and social life in China : six European women writers -- An intimate view of Chinese women : the Chinese goddess of mercy and against footbinding, Mrs. Archibald Little -- At home in the American legation : diplomatic wife and friend of the empress dowager, Sarah Pike Conger -- Chinese women interviewed : professional traveller and lady journalist, Grace Seton Thompson -- Homesteading in China : company wife and best-selling novelist, Alice Tisdale Hobart -- A Chinese noble household : daughter by affection and writer, Nora Waln -- A Chinese peasant household : missionary daughter and popular interpreter of China, Pearl Buck -- A dual life : east woman, west woman.