Every bad girl needs an exit strategy
Things would have turned out very differently for Marie Antoinette had she had one.
What it feels like for a girl
What is the feminine mystique?
The baddest one of them all: Empress Dowager Cixi
How a whiffet of undistinguished antecedents plotted and schemed her way to the top is a lesson in bad galing for all the aspiring bad gals out there.
Manchu princess, Japanese spy: Yoshiko Kawashima
How different is a person allowed to be? Serious threats to established systems are either co-opted and neutralised or completely destroyed.
Janice Nimura on the importance of being amphibious
Janice Nimura on her book, "Daughters of the Samurai," a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, and on living a three-dimensional life.
The dilemma of an American education
The daredevil aviatrixes of China
The phenomenal feats of the world's most glamorous aviatrixes.
The cross-legged minx of the Yuefenpai
The sexual allure of the Yuefenpai ladies reflected the allure of the modern city and all its consumer delights.
The first beauty pageant
In 1907, the Japanese newspaper Jiji Shimpō held Asia's first beauty pageant heralding the entry of women into the public sphere.
A new woman: Na Hye-Seok
The brilliant but brief life of a Korean artist who dared to challenge the status quo.
On Beauty
“The ancients said ‘man can be enraptured only by perfection.’ What, then, is perfection in a woman? It is her charm.
Between China and India: Katy Talati
Celebrating the remarkable Katy Talati, an artist bridging the cultures of India and China