《20世纪初北京的就业妇女》(City of Working Women:Life,Space,and Social Control in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing)作者程为坤原为加州州立大学(California State University)中国史教授,19世纪末20世纪初中国妇女及社会文化变迁领域研究专家,2007年因车祸不幸身亡。本著探讨了20世纪头三十年北京的城市下层妇女的生活,涉及女佣、乞丐、女优与妓女,及 “City of Working Women: Life, Space, and Social Control in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing” Author Cheng Weikun was formerly a professor of Chinese history at California State University, early 19th century and early 20th century Chinese women and social and cultural changes in the field of experts, died in a car accident in 2007. In the light of the discussion of the lives of women in urban Beijing in the first three decades of the twentieth century, involving maids, beggars, actresses and prostitutes, and