New Women in New China

"New Women in New China" is a collection of articles about the tremendous changes— political and economic—in the status of Chinese women after liberation. Their exploits and their new mental outlook are described in accounts of a women’s oil extraction team at the Daqing Oil Field, the “Iron Girls” team of the famed Dazhai Brigade in Shanxi Province’s Xiyang County, girls in Guangzhou working high above the ground on live ultra-high-tension power lines, the first group of Chinese women pilots, the first generation of Chinese fisherwomen in charge of production and the fishing vessels, and women bridge builders. —From "Peking Review," 1973