"<i>Finding Women in the State</i> makes a significant intervention in the fields of modern Chinese history, gender history, and the history of socialism . . . Adds a nuanced reading of the inner contentiousness of cultural industries . . . Will be of great interest to historians of gender, of the revolution, and of the state."
The American Historical Review
"Zheng Wang’s forceful and convincing argument . . . makes her new book a crucial intervention in the fields of PRC history and the history of Chinese feminism. . . . [and] should be required reading for anyone attempting to understand twentieth-century China."
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies