Li Shizhen: early modern scientist / Kenneth J. Hammond -- Amazon, artist, and adventurer: a courtesan in late imperial China / Daria Berg -- Zou Boqi on vision and photography in nineteenth-century China / Oliver Moore -- Ho Kai: a Chinese reformer in colonial Hong Kong / John Carroll -- Der Ling: Manchu princess, cultural advisor, and author / Shuo Wang -- Li Chenggan: patriot, populist, and factory patriarch / Joshua H. Howard -- The Beijing University students in the May Fourth era: a collective biography / Fabio Lanza -- The reluctant mendicant / Hugh Shapiro -- Hu Lanqi: rebellious woman, revolutionary soldier, discarded heroine, and triumphant Survivor / Kristin Stapleton -- Zhao Ruiqin: a peasant woman in Gansu and domestic worker in Beijing / Pan Yihong

1. China -- Biography