Emeritus Professor Louise Edwards

Emeritus Professor Louise Edwards

Emeritus Professor

FAHA, FASSA, FHKAH

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

Louise Edwards is Scientia Professor of Chinese History. She publishes on women and gender in China and Asia. Her most recent books include Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China (Washington University Press, 2020), Women Politics and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in China (Stanford University Press 2008) and Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China (Cambridge University Press 2016). Edwards is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. Between 2015-2016 she served as President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.

She has taught at a number of universities: The University of Hong Kong, University of Technology Sydney, Australian National University, Australian Catholic University and the University of Queensland, and held a visiting fellowship at the Centre for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library in Taipei. She studied at the Beijing Languages Institute and Nanjing University and was awarded her BA from Auckland University, BA (hons) from Murdoch University, and PhD from Griffith University.

Edwards currently holds Honorary Professorships at Hong Kong University, UTS-ACRI, and University of Melbourne.

https://unsw.academia.edu/LouiseEdwards

Phone
61-2-9065-2243
  • Books | 2020
    Edwards L; Penn N; Winter J, 2020, The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 4 1800 to the Present, Edwards L; Penn N; Winter J, (eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316585023
    Books | 2020
    Edwards L, 2020, Citizens of Beauty: Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China, University of Washington Press, Seattle, https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295747019/citizens-of-beauty/
    Books | 2016
    Edwards LP, 2016, Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
    Books | 2014
    Edwards LP, 2014, Qingdai Zhongguo de nanxing yu nüxing: Honglou meng zhong de xingbie, Peking University Press, Beijing
    Books | 2014
    Edwards LP, 2014, Xingbie, zhengzhi, yu minzhu--jindai Zhongguo de funü canzheng, Jiangsu Renmin Chubanshe, Hangzhou
    Books | 2010
    Edwards L; Jeffreys E, 2010, Celebrity in China
    Books | 2010
    Edwards L; Jeffreys E, 2010, Celebrity in China, Edwards LP; Jeffreys E, (ed.), Hong Kong University Press
    Books | 2010
    Roces M; Edwards LP, 2010, Women's Movements in Asia, Edwards LP; Roces M, (ed.), Routledge
    Books | 2010
    2010, Womens movements in Asia: feminisms and transnational activism, Roces M; Edwards L, (ed.), Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203851234
    Books | 2009
    Edwards LP; Roces M, 2009, Women in Asia: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies, Edwards L; Roces M, (ed.), Routledge, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415445252/
    Books | 2008
    Edwards LP, 2008, Gender, Politics, and Democracy, Stanford University Press
    Books | 2007
    Roces M; Edwards L, 2007, The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas, Roces M; Edwards LP, (ed.), Sussex Academic Press
    Books | 2004
    Edwards LP; Roces M, 2004, Women's Suffrage in Asia, Edwards L; Roces M, (ed.), Routledge
    Books | 2001
    Edwards LP, 2001, Men and Women in Qing China, University of Hawaii Press
    Books | 2000
    Edwards LP; Roces M, 2000, Women in Asia, Edwards LP; Roces M, (ed.), Allen & Unwin
    Books | 2000
    Edwards and Roces , 2000, Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalization, Allen & Unwin, SYdney
    Books | 1996
    Yuan M; Edwards LP; Louie K, 1996, Censored by Confucius, Edwards LP; Louie K, (ed.), M.E. Sharpe
    Books | 1995
    Edwards LP, 1995, Recreating the literary canon, Project Verlag, Ruhr University, Bochum
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Edwards L, 2023, 'From Iron Girls to Greedy Girls: Gender Marking Stability and Chaos Before and After the Cultural Revolution', in Clemente T; Tanigaki M; Shih C-Y (ed.), Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution Volume 2: Micro Intellectual History through De-central Lenses, World Scientific, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789811260902_0001
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Edwards L; Jung K; McLaren S, 2022, 'East Asia', in The Routledge Global History of Feminism, pp. 163 - 179
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Edwards L, 2022, 'Aestheticizing masculinity in Hongloumeng: Clothing, dress, and decoration', in Dream of the Red Chamber: Literary and Translation Perspectives, pp. 29 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003296812-3
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Edwards L; Penn N; Winter J, 2020, '“Introduction: 1800 to the Present”', in Edwards L; Penn N; Winter J (ed.), The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume IV – 1800 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316585023.001
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Edwards L, 2020, 'Problems for Commemorating Women Wartime Spies: Case Studies from China', in Cothran B; Judge J; Shubert A (ed.), WOMEN WARRIORS AND NATIONAL HEROES: GLOBAL HISTORIES, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 215 - 230, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/women-warriors-and-national-heroes-9781350121133/
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Edwards LP, 2016, 'Aestheticising Masculinity in Honglou meng: Clothing, Dress, and Decoration', in Changing Chinese Masculinities From Imperial Pillars of State to Global Real Men, edn. Transnational Asian Masculinities, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 90 - 112
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Edwards LP, 2013, 'Eating and Drinking in a Red Chambered Dream', in Yue I; Tang S (ed.), Scribes of Gastronomy: Representations of Food and Drink in Imperial Chinese Literature, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 113 - 132, http://hkupress.org/Common/Reader/Products/ShowProduct.jsp?Pid=1&Version=0&Cid=16&Charset=iso-8859-1&page=-1&key=9789888139989
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Edwards LP, 2013, 'Painting boundaries of sex segregation in Qing China: representing the family in The Red Chamber Dream', in Silbergeld J; Ching D (ed.), The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture, Princeton University Department of Art and Archeology with Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, pp. 339 - 372, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10016.html
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Edwards LP, 2012, 'Gendered Fictions and Chinese Women’s History', in Ho C (ed.), Overt and Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History, Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 307 - 337
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Edwards LP; Jeffreys E, 2010, 'Celebrity/China', in Edwards L; Jeffreys E (ed.), Celebrity in China, Hong Kong University Press, pp. 1 - 21
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Edwards LP, 2010, 'Chinese feminisms in a transnational frame: between internationalism and xenophobia', in Roces M; Edwards L (ed.), Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminism and Transnational Activism, Routledge, pp. 53 - 74
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Edwards LP, 2010, 'Military Celebrity in China: The Evolution of ‘Heroic and Model Servicemen'', in Edwards L; Jeffreys E (ed.), Celebrity in China, Hong Kong University Press, pp. 21 - 44
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Edwards LP, 2010, 'Twenty-first Century Women Warriors: Variations on Traditional Themes', in Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of ‘Hero’, Routledge, pp. 65 - 77
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Edwards LP, 2010, 'Twenty-first Century Women Warriors: Variations on Traditional Themes', in Rawnsley G; Rawnsley MY; Stringer J (ed.), Global Chinese Cinema: The Culture and Politics of ‘Hero’, Routledge, pp. 65 - 77
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Edwards LP, 2009, 'International Influences on the State-in-Society: Combating Violence against Women', in Li L (ed.), The Chinese state in transition: processes and contests in local China, Routledge, pp. 108 - 126
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Edwards LP, 2009, 'Women in Asia as a Distinct Research Field', in Roces M; Edwards L (ed.), Women in Asia: Volume 1, Women and Political Power, Routledge, pp. 1 - 18
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Edwards L, 2008, 'Diversity and evolution in the state-in-society: International influences in combating violence against women', in The Chinese State in Transition: Processes and Contests in Local China, pp. 108 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203893661
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Edwards L, 2008, 'Diversity and evolution in the state-in-society: International influences in combating violence against women', in The Chinese State in Transition: Processes and contests in local China, pp. 108 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203893661-13
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Edwards LP, 2008, 'Issue-based politics: feminism with Chinese characteristics or the return of bourgeois feminism', in Goodman D (ed.), The New Rich in China, pp. 201 - 212
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Edwards LP, 2007, 'Dressing for Power: Scholars’ Robes, School Uniforms and Military Attire in China', in Roces M; Edwards L (ed.), The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas, Sussex Academic Press, pp. 42 - 64
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Edwards LP, 2007, 'Trans-national Flows and the Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas,”', in Roces M; Edwards L (ed.), The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas, Sussex Academic Press, pp. 1 - 18
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Edwards L, 2006, 'Sport, Fashion and Beauty: New Incarnations of the Female Politician in Contemporary China', in Martin F; Heinrich L (ed.), Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures, Hawaii University Press, pp. 146 - 61
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Edwards LP, 2005, 'Bourgeois Women and communist revolutionaries?: De-revolutionizing the Chinese Women’s Suffrage Movement', in Mikula M (ed.), Women, Activism and Social Change, Routledge, pp. 29 - 48
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Edwards LP, 2005, 'Opposition to Women’s Suffrage in China: Confronting Modernity in Governance', in Leutner M; Spakowski N (ed.), Women in China: The Republican Period on Historical Perspective, LIT, Muenster, pp. 107 - 182
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Edwards LP, 2005, 'Zhanzheng dui xiandai Zhongguo funü canzheng yundong de yinxiang: ‘weijinüxing’ de wenti (The impact of war on women’s suffrage in China: the problem of ‘crisis femininity’)', in Wang Z; Chen Y (ed.), Bainian Zhongguo nüquan sichao yanjiu (Research in one hundred years of Chinese feminist thought), Fudan University press, Shanghai, pp. 220 - 226
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Edwards LP; Roces M, 2004, 'Orienting the Global Women’s Suffrage Movement', in Edwards L; Roces M (ed.), Women’s Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism, Democracy, pp. 1 - 23
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Edwards LP, 2004, 'Chinese Women’s Campaigns for Suffrage: Nationalism, Confucianism and Political Agency', in Edwards L; Roces M (ed.), Women’s Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism, Democracy, Routledge, pp. 59 - 78
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Edwards LP, 2004, 'Constraining Women’s Political Work with ‘Women’s-Work’: The Chinese Communist Party and Women’s Participation in Politics', in McLaren A (ed.), Chinese Women—Living and Working, Routledge, pp. 109 - 30
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Roces M; Edwards L, 2004, 'Introduction: orienting the global suffrage movement', in Edwards L; Roces M (ed.), Women`s Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism and Democracy, Routledge Press, London, pp. 1 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203401446
    Book Chapters | 2000
    Edwards LP; Roces M, 2000, 'Contesting Gender Narratives 1970-2000', in Edwards L (ed.), Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation, Allen and Unwin and the University of Michigan Press, pp. 1 - 15
    Book Chapters | 2000
    Edwards LP, 2000, 'Women in the People’s Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative', in Edwards L (ed.), Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation, Allen & Unwin and University of Michigan Press, pp. 59 - 84
    Book Chapters | 2000
    Roces M; Edwards RJ, 2000, 'Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000', in Women in Asia: Tradition, modernity and globalisation, edn. Original, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 1 - 15
    Book Chapters | 1999
    Edwards LP, 1999, 'Consolidating a Socialist Patriarchy: The Women Writers’ Industry and ‘Feminist’ Literary Criticism', in McLaren A; Finnane A (ed.), Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture, Monash Asia Institute, pp. 183 - 197
    Book Chapters | 1995
    Edwards LP; Louie K, 1995, 'Introduction--Censored by Confucius', in Louie K; Edwards L (ed.), Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei, pp. xxiii - xxxv
  • Edited Books | 2020
    Edwards L; Penn N; Winter J; Edwards L, (eds.), 2020, The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume IV 1800 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316585023
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Edwards L, 2023, 'War as Culture: Merging the Martial and the Cultural with Gender in China', NAN NU, 25, pp. 198 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02512026
    Journal articles | 2021
    Orly S; Edwards L, 2021, 'Chastity, foreign theories, and national heritage reorganization: Hu Shi (1892-1962) addresses ‘the woman problem’', NAN NU, 23, pp. 272 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02320026
    Journal articles | 2020
    Edwards L, 2020, 'Animals and beauties: Zoomorphic inscriptions of a modern gender hierarchy', NAN NU, 22, pp. 265 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02220002
    Journal articles | 2020
    Edwards L, 2020, '“Soldier Beauties and Sailor Sons in Republican China”', Humanities Australia, pp. 81 - 93, https://www.humanities.org.au/issue-item/humanities-australia-no-11-2020/
    Journal articles | 2019
    Edwards L, 2019, 'Victims, apologies, and the Chinese in Australia', Journal of Chinese Overseas, 15, pp. 62 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341390
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edwards LP; Hanna M; Lorcin P, 2016, ''The Legacy of the War to End All Wars’', Gender and History, 28, pp. 567 - 586, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12239
    Journal articles | 2016
    Edwards LP, 2016, 'International Women’s Day in China: Feminism meets Militarized Nationalism and Competing Political Party Programs', Asian Studies Review, 40, pp. 89 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2015.1124066
    Journal articles | 2015
    Edwards LP, 2015, 'Localizing the Hollywood Star System in 1930s China: Linglong magazine and new moral spaces', Asian Studies, 1, pp. 13 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.6551/AS.0101.02
    Journal articles | 2013
    Edwards L, 2013, 'Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History.', NAN NU-MEN WOMEN AND GENDER IN CHINA, 15, pp. 337 - 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-0152P0006
    Journal articles | 2013
    Edwards L, 2013, 'Drawing sexual violence in wartime China: Anti-Japanese propaganda cartoons', Journal of Asian Studies, 72, pp. 563 - 586, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813000521
    Journal articles | 2012
    Edwards L, 2012, 'Editing Academic Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Maximizing Impact for Effort', JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING, 44, pp. 61 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jsp.44.1.61
    Journal articles | 2012
    Edwards L, 2012, 'The Shanghai modern woman's American dreams: Imagining America's depravity to produce China's "moderate modernity"', Pacific Historical Review, 81, pp. 567 - 601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2012.81.4.567
    Journal articles | 2012
    Edwards L, 2012, 'Women sex-spies: Chastity, national dignity, legitimate government and Ding Ling's when i was in Xia Village', China Quarterly, pp. 1059 - 1078, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741012001208
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edwards L; Zhou L, 2011, 'Gender and the "virtue of violence": Creating a new vision of political engagement through the 1911 revolution', Frontiers of History in China, 6, pp. 485 - 504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11462-011-0138-8
    Journal articles | 2011
    Edwards L, 2011, 'Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China.', AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 116, pp. 157 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.1.157
    Journal articles | 2010
    Edwards L, 2010, 'Transformations of the woman warrior Hua Mulan: From defender of the family to servant of the state', NAN NU, 12, pp. 175 - 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852610X545840
    Journal articles | 2008
    Edwards L, 2008, 'Review Article: The ‘Problem of China’ and Chinese Exceptionalism', Journal of Contemporary History, 43, pp. 155 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009407084565
    Journal articles | 2007
    Edwards L, 2007, 'Strategizing for politics: Chinese women's participation the one-party state', Women's Studies International Forum, 30, pp. 380 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2007.07.005
    Journal articles | 2006
    Edwards L, 2006, 'Failure, nationalism, and literature: The making of modern Chinese identity, 1895-1937', CHINA JOURNAL, 56, pp. 193 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20066211
    Journal articles | 2005
    Edwards LP; Farquhar M, 2005, 'Jia Baoyu in Honglou meng: Boyhood, Adolescence and Adulthood in Pre-Modern China', Tamkang Review: a quarterly of comparative studies of Chinese and foreign literatures, XXXVI, pp. 35 - 66
    Journal articles | 2005
    Farquhar M; Edwards L, 2005, 'Jia Baoyu in Honglou meng: Boyhood, adolescence, and adulthood in pre-modern China', Tamkang Review, 36, pp. 35 - 66
    Journal articles | 2002
    Edwards L, 2002, 'Coopting the Chinese women's suffrage movement for the fifth modernisation — democracy', Asian Studies Review, 26, pp. 285 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357820208713347
    Journal articles | 2002
    Edwards L, 2002, 'Narratives of race and nation in China: Women's suffrage in the early twentieth century', Women's Studies International Forum, 25, pp. 619 - 630, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-5395(02)00340-0
    Journal articles | 2001
    Edwards LP, 2001, 'New Hongxue and the ‘Birth of an Author’: Yu Pingbo’s ‘On Qin Keqing’s death’', Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles and Reviews, 23, pp. 31 - 54
    Journal articles | 2000
    Edwards L; Occhipinti S; Ryan S, 2000, 'Food and immigration: the indigestion trope contests the sophistication narrative', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 21, pp. 297 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256860020007458
    Journal articles | 2000
    Edwards L, 2000, 'Policing the modem woman in republican China', MODERN CHINA, 26, pp. 115 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009770040002600201
    Journal articles | 2000
    Edwards L, 2000, 'Policing the modern woman in Republican China', Modern China, 26, pp. 115 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009770040002600201
    Journal articles | 2000
    Edwards LP, 2000, 'Women’s Suffrage in China: Challenging Scholarly Conventions', Pacific Historical Review, 69, pp. 617 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3641227
    Journal articles | 1999
    Edwards L, 1999, 'Creating socialist women in Japan: Gender, labour and activism, 1900-1937', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 45, pp. 150 - 151, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000079688300048&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1999
    Edwards LP, 1999, 'From Gender Equality to Gender Difference: Feminist Campaigns for Quotas for Women in Politics', Twentieth Century China, pp. 69 - 105
    Journal articles | 1999
    Howell J; Brownell S; Chang JS; Jeffreys E; Edwards L; Ross K, 1999, 'Responses', Critical Asian Studies, 31, pp. 37 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415729
    Journal articles | 1999
    Ryan S; Edwards L; Occhipinti S, 1999, '‘Must have been the Chinese I ate ‘: Food poisoning, migration and national indigestion', Continuum, 13, pp. 315 - 323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304319909365803
    Journal articles | 1998
    Edwards L, 1998, 'Baptized in the fire of revolution: The American social gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919-1937', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 22, pp. 362 - 364, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000076342800024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1997
    Louie K; Edwards L; Selway D, 1997, 'Native and background speakers of Chinese: Australian tertiary educators’ perceptions of the problems and prospects', Asian Studies Review, 20, pp. 91 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03147539708713129
    Journal articles | 1996
    Edwards L, 1996, 'The China factor in modern Japanese thought: The case of Tachibana Shiraki, 1881-1945 - Li,L', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 42, pp. 480 - 480, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1996WJ43000043&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1995
    Edwards L, 1995, 'Women Warriors and Amazons of the Mid Qing Texts Jinghua yuan and Honglou meng', Modern Asian Studies, 29, pp. 225 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00012713
    Journal articles | 1995
    Edwards LP; Selway D; Louie K, 1995, 'Curricula for Background Speakers of Chinese Languages—Towards a New Link Between Economics and Culture', Curricula for Background Speakers of Chinese Languages—Towards a New Link Between Economics and Culture, 12, pp. 35 - 52
    Journal articles | 1995
    Edwards LP, 1995, 'Late Twentieth Century Orientalism: The Discourse of Selection', Renditions, 44, pp. 1 - 11
    Journal articles | 1994
    Edwards LP; Louie K, 1994, 'Chinese Masculinity: Theorising wen and wu', East Asian History, pp. 137 - 150
    Journal articles | 1994
    Edwards LP, 1994, 'Chin Sung-ts’en’s A Tocsin for Women—The Dextrous Merger of Radicalism and Conservatism in Feminism of the Early Twentieth Century', Chin Sung-ts’en’s A Tocsin for Women—The Dextrous Merger of Radicalism and Conservatism in Feminism of the Early Twentieth Century, pp. 117 - 114
    Journal articles | 1994
    Louie K; Edwards L, 1994, 'Chinese for Dinkum Aussies', Asian Studies Review, 18, pp. 53 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03147539408712995
    Journal articles | 1993
    Edwards L, 1993, 'Representations of Women and Social Power in Eighteenth Century China: The Case of Wang Xifeng', Late Imperial China, 14, pp. 34 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/late.1993.0009
    Journal articles | 1993
    Edwards LP, 1993, 'Historiography of Lin Siniang: Desirability and Virtue in Eighteenth Century China', New Zealand Journal of East Asian Studies, 1, pp. 63 - 75
    Journal articles | 1993
    Edwards LP, 1993, 'Representations of Women and Social Power in Eighteenth Century China: The Case of Wang Xifeng', Late Imperial China, 14, pp. 34 - 59
    Journal articles | 1992
    EDWARDS L, 1992, 'DAUGHTERS OF THE CANTON DELTA - MARRIAGE PATTERNS AND ECONOMIC-STRATEGIES IN SOUTH CHINA, 1860-1930 - STOCKARD,JE', BULLETIN OF CONCERNED ASIAN SCHOLARS, 24, pp. 59 - 66, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1992HX27900009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1992
    EDWARDS L, 1992, 'STAYING ALIVE - WOMEN, ECOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT - SHIVA,V', BULLETIN OF CONCERNED ASIAN SCHOLARS, 24, pp. 59 - 66, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1992HX27900007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1992
    Edwards L, 1992, 'Broadening Horizons: Representations of Women in Asia', Critical Asian Studies, 24, pp. 59 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1992.10412995
    Journal articles | 1990
    Edwards L; Louie K, 1990, 'Women in Chinese Fiction: The Last Ten Years', Australian Feminist Studies, 5, pp. 95 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.1990.9961679
    Journal articles | 1990
    Edwards L, 1990, 'Asian Studies Association of Australia 8th Biennial Conference', Australian Feminist Studies, 5, pp. 113 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.1990.9961702
    Journal articles | 1990
    Edwards L, 1990, 'Women in Honglou meng: Prescriptions of Purity in the Femininity of Qing Dynasty China', Modern China, 16, pp. 407 - 429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009770049001600402
    Journal articles | 1990
    Edwards LP, 1990, 'Gender Imperatives in Honglou meng—Baoyu’s Bisexuality', Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles and Reviews, pp. 69 - 81

Edwards was President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in 2015 and 2016. She has been elected as a fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.

A reflection on 100 Years of the USA's Women's Suffrage Movement -- at HKU's Gender Studies Program -- A conversation with Brenda Rodreguez Alegre, Louise Edwards and Martha S. Jones

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The event was co-organised by the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity and the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong, with the support of the U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau, the University of Hong Kong Libraries, and the HKU American Studies Programme, School of Modern Languages and Cultures.