Acknowledgements and editor's notes / Clara Wing-chung Ho
An investigation into the sources for women's history in the Sibu: in lieu of an introduction / Clara Wing-chung Ho
How the history of women in early China intersects with the history of science in early China / Lisa Raphals
The Mao commentary to the Book of odes as a source for women's history / Anne Behnke Kinney
Discourses on female bodily aesthetics and its early revelations in The book of songs / Eva Kit Wah Man
Social status, gender division and institutions: sources relating to women in Chinese standard histories / Yi Jo-lan
Women in portraits: an overview of epitaphs from early and medieval China / Ping Yao
Ishinpo and its excerpts from Chanjing: a Japanese medical text as a source for Chinese women's history / Jen-der Lee
Illustrating Chinese women's history / Patricia Ebrey
Gazetteers and the talented woman / Ellen Widmer
Women in Chinese encyclopedias / Harriet T. Zurndorfer
Gendered fictions and Chinese women's history / Louise Edwards
Romantic recollections of women as sources of women's history / Wai-yee Li
Auto/biographical subjects: Ming-Qing women's poetry collections as sources for women's life histories / Grace S. Fong
Personal writings on female relatives in the Qing collective works / Weijing Lu
Women's characters: calligraphy as a source for women's history / Hu Ying
A kaleidoscope of knowledge about women: the Chinese periodical press, 1872-1918 / Joan Judge
Between drawing and writing: prostitutes in the Dianshizhai pictorial / Hon-ming Yip
The stories of urban Christian women in nineteenth-century South China: with special reference to missionary-related sources / Wong Man Kong
Epilogue / Dorothy Ko, Angela Ki Che Leung, Jo-shui Chen & Robin D.S. Yates
A selected bibliography of useful works on the methodologies of Chinese women's history / Kar-kee Lo & Hoi-ling Lui.