The essays in this volume examine how women's well-being compared with men's is being affected by the reforms associated with China's membership in the WTO.

1. China's Transition and Feminist Economics Gunseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong, and Gale Summerfield 2. Land Management in Rural China and Its Gender Implications Denise Hare, Li Yang and Daniel Englander 3. Gender and Rural Reforms in China: A Case Study of Population Control and Land Rights Policies in Northern Liaoning Junjie Chen and Gale Summerfield 4. Women's Market Work and Household Status in Rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the Late 1990s Fiona MacPhail and Xiao-yuan Dong 5. Gender Dynamics and Redundancy in Urban China Jieyu Liu 6. An Ocean Formed from One Hundred Rivers: The Effects of Ethnicity, Gender, Marriage, and Location on Labor Force Participation in Urban China Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James Hughes and Dandan Zhang 7. Gender Equity in Transitional China's Healthcare Policy Reforms Lanyan Chen and Hilary Standing 8. Foreign Direct Investment and Gendered Wages in Urban China Elissa Braunstein and Mark Brenner 9. Gendering the Dormitory Labor System: Production, Reproduction, and Migrant Labor in South China Pun Ngai 10. Chinese Women after the Accession to the World Trade Organization: A Legal Perspective on Women's Labor Rights Julien Burda 11. Western Cosmetics in the Gendered Development of Consumer Culture in China Barbara E. Hopkins 12. Meinu Jingji/China's Beauty Economy: Buying Looks, Shifting Value, and Changing Place Gary Xu and Susan Feiner