Wenjun Yu and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk have recently published their article "Textile Wages, Women’s Earning Power, and Household Living Standardsin the Yangtze Delta, 1756–c.1930" in a special issue on…
When I arrived as a visiting ARC fellow to the Graduate Center at CUNY, New York a few weeks ago, I was told that the common dining room at the…