Acknowledgments Introduction: History, Women, and China's War of Resistance against Japan Part I: The War and Gender's Social Roles Prologue Students A Xiajiang Woman A Doctor's Wife A Girl of the ZZEB A Teacher of the ZZEB A Woman from a Rich and Powerful Family Women from Poor Peasant Families Part II: The War and Gender's Economic Impact Prologue Daughters A Tailor's Wife An Abandoned Housewife A Minsheng Employee A Yuhua Textile Factory Worker A Woman of the Songji Experimental Zone Part III: The War and Gender's Political Impact Prologue A Communist Woman Working for the XYCZFZW A Student Revolutionary A Jiuguohui Woman An Underground CCP Member Part IV: Women, Memory, and China's War of Resistance against Japan Epilogue Notes References Index