Women: China

• Ban Zhao Pan Chao: Lessons for A Woman: The Views of A Female Confucian, c. 80 CE
• Ben Zhao Pan Chao (45-115? CE) :  The Problem of Woman [At CCNY]
• The Tale of Mulan, the Maiden Chief, c. 502-556 CE
• Marie Vento: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
• Women in China: History and the Present
• Women in Asia: Press Reports
• Modern Marriage in China - Two Texts

Women: Japan

• Sarashina: The Diary of Lady Sarashina, 1009-1059 CE [At Hanover College]
• Kaibara Ekken or Kaibara Token: Greater Learning for Women, 1762 [At WSU]
• Diaries of the Court Lades of Old Japan, trans. Annie Sheply Omori and Kochi Doi, full text, [At CMU]

Homosexuality

• The Homosexual Tradition in China: Selections from Chinese Homosexual Literature
• Four Recent Press Reports on Gay Life in China
• Manifesto of First Chinese Tongzhi Conference, 1996 [At HKGAY]
  Tongzhi is being used in Chinese for Gay. This manifesto directly asserts a historical basis for modern Chinese homosexuals and the differences of Chinese Tongzhi movements with western gay movements.
• Mary M. Anderson, Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China , (Buffalo NY: Prometheus, 1990), 15-18, 307-11

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