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• Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.; London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by M. E. Hume-Griffith, contrib. by A. Hume-Griffith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by M. E. Hume-Griffith, contrib. by A. Hume-Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daylight in the harem, a new era for Moslem women; papers on present-day reform movements, conditions and methods of work among Moslem women, read at the Lucknow conference, 1911 (Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1911), by India) Missionary Conference on Behalf of the Mohammedan World. (2nd : 1911 : Lucknow, Samuel Marinus Zwemer, and Annie Van Sommer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women workers of the Orient (The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1918), by Margaret E. Burton and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die frauen des Orients in der geschichte, in der dichtung und im leben. (A. Hartleben, 1904), by Amand Schweiger-Lerchenfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women and the new East. (Middle East Institute, 1960), by Ruth Frances Woodsmall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The harim and the purdah : studies of Oriental women (The Century Co., 1916), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern women, today and tomorrow (The Central committee on the united study of foreign missions, 1933), by Ruth Frances Woodsmall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daylight in the harem : a new era for Moslem women (New York : Fleming H. Revell, [1911?], 1911), by India) Missionary Conference on Behalf of the Mohammedan World (2nd : 1911 : Lucknow, Samuel Marinus Zwemer, and Annie Van Sommer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oriental Women (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v4; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907), by Edward B. Pollard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Oriental women (Rittenhouse Press, 1908), by Edward B. Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to use our text-book Women workers of the Orient : a handbook of suggestions (Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1918), by Helen Barrett Montgomery and Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)

• Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), ed. by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to use our text-book Women workers of the Orient : a handbook of suggestions (Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1918), by Helen Barrett Montgomery and Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Lecture on the condition of women in pagan and Mahometan countries (Troy, N.Y. : [publisher not identified], 1845., 1845), by Caleb Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Condition and character of females in pagan and Mohammedan countries. ([publisher not identified], 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Statistical indicators on women : an Asian perspective. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1993), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)

• Four hundred million women in Asia appeal to the men and women of America for relief from physical suffering. (s.n., 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific (c2014), ed. by Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Widows (2 volumes; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), ed. by Helena Znaniecka Lopata, contrib. by Robert L. Rubinstein, Jaya Sarma Gujral, Jasoon Koo, Marsel A. Heisel, Jacquiline Touba, Ruth Katz, Nitza Ben-Dor, Evangelina Novero Blust, Linda Roseman, Arthur D. Shulman, Denise R. Barnes, Christine L. Fry, Lauree Garvin, Shirley L. O'Bryant, Anne Victoria Neale, Rubye Wilkerson Beck, Trudy B. Anderson, Jessyna M. McDonald, Margaret Gentry, Linda Rosenman, Phyllis R. Silverman, Anabel O. Pelham, William F. Clark, Anne Martin Matthews, Carol D. H. Harvey, Gordon E. Barnes, Leonard J. Greenwood, and Rose Kabahenda-Nyakabwa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women workers of the Orient (The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1918), by Margaret E. Burton and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Moslem sisters; a cry of need from lands of darkness interpreted by those who heard it (F. H. Revell, 1907), by Annie Van Sommer and Samuel Marinus Zwemer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memorie sull' Egitto e specialmente sui costumi delle donne orientali e gli harem scritte durante il suo sogiorno in quel paese. (Libreria Pirotta, 1841), by Amalia Nizzoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les femmes en Orient (Meyer & Zeller, 1859), by Dora d' Istria (page images at HathiTrust)
• The harim and the purdah; studies of oriental women (The Century Company, 1915), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the Orient; an account of the religious, intellectual, and social condition of women in Japan, China, India, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. (Hitchcock and Walden;, 1877), by Ross C. Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Overtaking the centuries, or, Modern women of five nations. (National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associations of the United States of America, 1916), by Annie Estelle Paddock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of the Orient : an account of the religious, intellectural, and social condition of women in Japan, China, India, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. (Cranston & Stowe, 1877), by Ross C. Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oriental women (Rittenhouse Press, 1908), by Edward Bagby Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Moslem Sisters: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It, ed. by Annie Van Sommer and Samuel Marinus Zwemer (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Future of Afghanistan (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2009), ed. by J. Alexander Thier (PDF with commentary at usip.org)

• Daughters of Armenia. (American tract society, 1877), by S Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Im Stromgebiet des Irrawaddy : Birma und seine Frauenwelt (O. Schloss, 1922), by Lucian Scherman and Christine Scherman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Burmese family. (Indiana University Press, 1962), by Mi Mi Khaing (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters From China, With Particular Reference To The Empress Dowager and the Women of China (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Sarah Pike Conger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Court Life in China, by Isaac Taylor Headland (Gutenberg text)
• Court Life in China (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1909), by Isaac Taylor Headland
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• Old China and Young America (Chicago: F. G. Browne and Co., 1913), by Sarah Pike Conger
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• Pagoda Shadows: Studies From Life in China (third edition; Boston: W. G. Corthell, 1885), by Adele M. Fielde (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters from China : with particular reference to the Empress Dowager and the women of China (McClurg, 1981), by Sarah Pike Conger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lady Fourth Daughter of China, sharer of life (The Central committee on the united study of foreign missions, 1932), by Mary Hollister and Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chinesische frauengestalten (Verlag der Asia major, 1926), by Shou-Lin Cheng (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chinese women, yesterday & to-day (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937), by Florence Wheelock Ayscough (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Chinese marriage (Duffield, 1922), by Mae M. Franking and Katherine Anne Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gu jin lie nü zhuan (Jing qing shu wu, 1898), by Xiang Liu and Jin Xie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nü zu si du ben. (1876), by Xiang Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mei ren jian tai shi. (1923) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mei ren feng ya da guan : [12 juan]. (1925), by Muxi Xu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yan shi cong chao (Taoyuanzhuren, 1878), by Tao Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light comes to Yin : a story of China's women (Covenant Book, 1931), by Edla C. Matson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zhongguo si da mei ren quan shi (Zhongguo di yi shu ju, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chinese womanhood (Jennings & Graham ;, 1913), by Lucinda Pearl Boggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Chinese marriage (Lane, 1922), by M. T. F. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The women of the Middle Kingdom (Jennings and Pye;, 1903), by Robert Leroy McNabb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ping-Kua : a girl of Cathay (Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1912), by Rachel R. Benn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pagoda shadows : studies from life in China (T. Ogilvie Smith ..., 1887), by Adele M. Fielde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from China, with particular reference to the empress dowager and the women of China (Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by Sarah Conger and Empress dowager of China Cixi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chinese lanterns, by Grace Thompson Seton... (Dodd, Mead and company, 1924), by Grace Gallatin Seton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bright concubine and lesser luminaries; tales of fair and famous ladies of China (J. W. Luce, 1928), by Genevieve Wimsatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pagoda shadows; studies from life in China. (W. G. Corthell, 1884), by Adele M. Fielde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The love letters of a Chinese lady (T. N. Foulis, 1919), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nü-hsing wen-t'i yen-chiu chi = A collection of articles on the study of the problems of women (Xin wen hua shu she, 1928), by Sheng Mei (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fu-nü yün-tung kai-lun = An introduction to the women movement (Ya dong tu shu guan, 1927), by Zhihua Yang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Li dai ming yuan tu shuo. (Shen bao guan shen chang shu hua shi, 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pagoda shadows : studies from life in China (W.G. Corthell, 1885), by Adele M. Fielde (page images at HathiTrust)
• China in outline, and Woman in China. (J.T. Gracey, 1900), by J. T. Gracey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ping-Kua; a girl of Cathay (Woman's foreign missionary society, Methodist Episcopal church, 1912), by Rachel R. Benn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The street of precious pearls (The Womans press, 1921), by Nora Waln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sittenbilder aus China : Mädchen und frauen ; Ein beitrag zur kenntnis des chinesischen volkes (Strecker & Schröder, 1895), by M. von Brandt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the Middle Kingdom (Young People's Missionary Movement, 1907), by Robert Leroy MacNabb and Empress Dowager of China Tze-shi. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My lady of the Chinese courtyard : being a sequel to "The love letters of a Chinese lady". ([s.n., 1920), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The love story of a maiden of Cathay (Fleming H. Revell company, 1911), by Florence Rush Nance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penseldrag : en kinesisk makas kärleksbrev (Wahlström & Widstrand, 1922), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Where China comes in (Foreign Dept., National Board of the Young Womens Christian Association of the United States, 1919), by Harriet M. Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Xiang yan cong shu : 20 ji ([Guo xue fu lun she], 1911), by China) Guo xue fu lun she (Shanghai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Xiang yan cong tan ([Zhonghua tu shu ji cheng bian ji suo], 1919), by Zhonghua tu shu ji cheng bian ji suo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Court life in China the capital, its officials and people (F.H. Revell, 1909), by Isaac Taylor Headland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters from China, with particular reference to the Empress dowager and the women of China. (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1909), by Sarah Pike Conger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court life in China: the capital, its officials and people (F.H. Revell company, 1909), by Isaac Taylor Headland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of Women's Conference in China. (Women's Conference] , 1900), by 1900 : Shanghai) Women's Conference in China (November (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• (Zhuang yuan ge) Nü si shu. 4 zhong : 2 juan. (Wen cheng tang, 1885), by Xiang Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the Middle Kingdom (Young People's Missionary Movement, 1908), by R. L. McNabb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from China : with particular reference to the Empress Dowager and the women of China (A. C. McClurg, 1910), by Sarah Pike Conger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of the Middle Kingdom. (Young People's Missionary Movement, 1907), by R. L. McNabb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Akoe poenja pernikahan dengen saorang Tionghoa (Sin Po, 1922), by Mae M. Franking and Katherine Anne Porter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shina-onna kenkyū kōen roku (Shina Fūzoku Kenkyūkai, 1921), by Susumu Inoue (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Chinese slave-girl : a story of woman's life in China (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1901), by J. A. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• My lady of the Chinese courtyard : being a sequel to "The love letters of a Chinese lady (T.N. Foulis, 1920), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The street of precious pearls (Womans Press, 1921), by Nora Waln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moeurs et coutumes (Etablissements généraux d'imprimerie, 1907), by Commandant Baltia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Canton Christian College Girl Students (Trustees of the Canton Christian College, 1915), by Canton Christian College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hsiang yen tsʻung shu. (1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhongguo fu nü wen ti tao lun ji : cheng chi (Xin wen hua shu she, 1926), by Sheng Mei (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chinese women (Houghton Mifflin company, 1937), by Florence Wheelock Ayscough (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pagoda shadows : studies from life in China (W.G. Corthell, 1885), by Adele M. Fielde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shan nü ren zhuan : [2 juan]. (s.n., 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nü si shu (Wen cheng tang, 1885), by Xiang Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Li dai ming yuan tu shuo : [2 juan] (Dian shi zhai, 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heathen at home (Mrs. Angie F. Newman, 1878), by Angie F. Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines for mothers' meetings. ([publisher not identified], 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Street of Precious Pearls, by Nora Waln (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, by Elizabeth Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)

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