Soldiering, war and gender in China
The archetypal woman warrior, Hua Mulan : militarising filial piety
Qiu Jin : transitioning from traditional swordswoman to feminist warrior
Xie Bingying opening public spaces to women
fighting patriarchy and fighting militarists
Aisin Gioro Xianyu : "Joan of Arc of the Orient" or "Mata Hari of the East"?
Guerrilla resistance leader, Zhao Yiman : warrior teacher and self-sacrificing CCP mother
Negotiating sexual virtue : the glamorous, honey-trap spy, Zheng Pingru
Ding Ling and Zhenzhen : female chastity and good communist governance
Mobilising and militarising rural China through the girl martyr, Liu Hulan
Women warriors and wartime spies as tools for "total militarisation" : the Red Detachment of Women.