Introduction : modern Chinese women writers / Michael S. Duke -- Gender and identity in Ding Ling's Mother / Tani E. Barlow -- Fiction and autobiography : spatial form in "The golden cangue" and The woman warrior / Lucien Miller and Hui-chuan Chang -- Kingston as exorcist / Joseph S.M. Lau -- Personae : individual and society in three novels by Chen Ruoxi / Michael S. Duke -- Shapes of darkness : symbols in Li Ang's Dark night / Michelle Yeh -- Travelling together : narrative technique in Zhang Jie's "The ark" / Alison Bailey -- Making it happen : aspects of narrative method in Zhang Kangkang's "Northern lights" / Daniel Bryant -- In search of love and self : the image of young female intellectuals in post-Mao women's fiction / Lai-fong Leung
Images of sexual oppression in Zhu Lin's Snake's-pillow collection / Richard King -- Women, writers, social reform : three issues in Shen Rong's fiction / Wendy Larson -- Fiction's end : Zhang Xinxin's new approaches to creativity / Carolyn Wakeman and Yue Daiyun -- Perspective and spatiality in the fiction of three Hong Kong women writers / Ling Chung -- Feminist consciousness in modern Chinese male fiction / David Der-wei Wang