Despair and Hope: A Changsha Chronicle

My firsthand account of the events of 1989 in China as they unfolded in Changsha, Hunan, first appeared online on Long Bow Group's Tiananmen Square/ Gate of Heavenly Peace website: http://www.tsquare.tv/links/WORDEN.html Originally published in 1991 in The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces, edited by Jonathan Unger (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1991). … Continue reading Despair and Hope: A Changsha Chronicle

Gender and Inequality in Urban China Today (Conference agenda, Yale 1990)

Read pdf NB: During my first year of graduate school at Stanford, and about seven months after the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, I was invited to participate in this symposium at Yale on gender inequality in China by one of my professors and mentors at Yale, Professor Deborah Davis. I spoke on women's participation in the … Continue reading Gender and Inequality in Urban China Today (Conference agenda, Yale 1990)