Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: A good book for an obscure subject

Few scholarly tomes are written covering the history of Chinese women -- at least in the Western World -- so this book comes as an interesting overview of one hundred years of Chinese history, from the foot-binding days at the edge of the Opium War, all the way through the Boxer Rebellion and the 1911 Revolution, to the Communist victory in 1949 and the establishment of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China in 1950 which helped liberalize Chinese women. It is an interesting look into the differences that have always existed between the women of Northern and Southern China, as well as the growth of the role of women in Chinese society form the middle of the 19th Century to the middle of the 20th. Given the scarcity of detailed works in the West regarding the rise of Chinese women in their society, the book is worth reading.