Introduction The discourse on 淫 (yin, obscene/licentious/lascivious/pornographic) in early twentieth century China has been gradually attracting scholarly attention in recent years. Within this body of…

In her keynote address to the conference from which this special issue of China Perspectives has emerged, Prof. Gail Hershatter spoke of gender and “blindspotting”:…

Almost half a century has passed since Anglophone feminist scholars began to write about women in China’s twentieth-century revolutions (Young 1973; Wolf and Witke 1975;…

The first special issue of China Perspectives on “Sinophone Musical Worlds” (2019/3) laid the theoretical foundation for a musical approach to Sinophone studies (Amar 2019)….