Josai University Educational Corporation

International Center for the Promotion of Art and Science (JICPAS)

Review of Japanese Culture and Society

JICPAS issues an English-language magazine "Review of Japanese Culture and Society" offering an international analysis of Japanese people and culture. This magazine is published with a view to enhance international recognition of Japanese culture and its society as well as to stimulate mutual understanding and study the methods of cultural theory.

Review of Japanese Culture and Society Vol.VIII December 1996 (Cultural and Social Change in Respect of Asian Women)

Foreword
Mizuta Noriko i
Introduction: We Come Together as We Speak Out? Deconstructing Sexism in Culture and in Social Institutions
Wachi Yasuko iii
Keynote Speech: On the History of Asian Women Exchanges
Yamazaki Tomoko 1
Round-Table Discussion: Asian Women Change Their Culture and Society
Yagi Kimiko (Chair)
Panelists: Mizuta Noriko, Wachi Yasuko, Xue Keqiao, Zhang Yulan 9
Women and Culture
Nukata no Okimi: A Bright Star in the History of Waka? The Poems and the Poet
Lu Li 15
Chinese Women's Literature Since 1955
Xu Kun 23
Japanese Film and Women: The Works of Mizoguchi Kenji and Naruse Mikio
Kamimura Masao 28
Women Disguised as Men: Longing for the Past in Chinese Cinema
Xue Keqiao 33
The Polarized World at the End of Fascism: An Examination of Hirabayashi Taeko's Blind Chinese Soldiers
Kora Rumiko 37
Women and Society
Migration of Labor Force from Rural Areas and Women in China
Tian He 41
Women's Working in Postwar Japan: The M-Pattern and the Gender Differentiation of Occupations and Labor Markets
Ushijima Chihiro 47
Reform and Liberalization Policies and the Reemployment of Urban Female Labor
Chen Hui 57
Female Education: A Comparative Study of India and China
Wang Xiaodan 63
Working Women and Child-Rearing in the Village
Uozumi Akiyo 70
Fiction:
The Cricket Girl
Ozaki Midori 78

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