Gail Hershatter, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past

Gail Hershatter’s book The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past is based on more than one decade of research she carried out with Gao Xiaoxian (高小贤), a native of their research site, Shaanxi Province, and both a research office director of the Shaanxi Provincial Women’s Federation and Secretary General of the Shaanxi Research Association for Women and Family. When the two first met in Beijing in 1992, they discovered a common interest in early socialism in rural China and..