A Doll's House, 154, 180, 282

adultery, 77, 161, 241, 243–244, 274–277, 358n655

agency, 8, 11–12, 15, 23, 31, 91, 238, 265, 315, 323n43, 416

Ai Xiaomei, 33

Alarm Daily (Jingzhong ribao), 56, 83, 430

All China Women's Federation, 11, 21, 359n676

Allen, Young J., 32, 37

Andors, Phyllis, 10, 319n8

anti-foot binding, 36, 68, 72, 319n6, 324n60, 390

anti-Manchu revolution, 5, 66, 76, 82

anarchofeminists, 10

appropriate, 5, 12–14, 22–23, 35, 45, 49, 90, 110, 152, 169, 200–201, 212, 247, 287, 297, 316

arranged marriage, 53, 76, 165–169, 182, 188, 210, 218, 231, 233, 245, 249, 252, 287

A Tocsin for Women (Nüjiezhong), 61, 64, 74, 327n109, 327n119, 329n150, 380, 388

autonomous love, 78, 149–150, 153, 165, 168–170, 177, 179, 239, 287, 295, 345n423, 405

authenticity, 3, 88

authoritarianism, 148, 154

authoritative, 17, 31, 37, 287

Awakening (Jue), 252–253

Awakening Society (Juewu she), 180, 189–190, 194, 196

Bai Yushuang, 297, 363n712, 383

Ban Zhao, 26, 29, 50, 138

Bao Tianxiao, 69, 98

Barlow, Tani, 8, 11, 319n3, 320n16, 413

Beahan, Charlotte, 8, 15, 99

Beijing Women's Daily (Beijing nübao), 65, 88, 429

Bing Xin, 185, 346n446, 376

Biographies of Exemplary Women (Lienü zhuan), 29, 50

Book on Family, 273, 275, 278–279

Book on Inheritance, 273

Borthwick, Sally, 99, 206, 319n6

boudoir poetry (guitishi), 5, 64, 87

bourgeois, 16–17, 322n29

boycott, 52, 65, 72–73, 82–84, 166, 256, 259, 266, 297

broken line (juehu), 217

Cai Erkang, 32

Cai Hui, 111

Cai Yuanpei, 59, 170–172

Cao Rujin, 61

capitalism, 17, 182, 282–283, 289, 323n48, 424

career women, xiii, 7, 12, 128, 167, 185, 226, 257, 309, 311, 357n637, 422

celibacy, 106, 165–167, 211, 225–226, 228, 259, 302, 390

Central Women's Department, 204–205, 224, 236–237, 239, 273

censorship, 204, 209, 305, 310

Cha Xiaoyuan, 174–175