Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social change cross-culturally. In this multilayered book, the first-person narratives are complemented by a history of the discursive process and the author's sophisticated intertextual readings. Together, the parts form a fascinating historical portrait of how educated Chinese men and women actively deployed and appropriated ideologies from the West in their pursuit of national salvation and self-emancipation. As Wang demonstrates, feminism was embraced by men as instrumental to China's modernity and by women as pointing to a new way of life.
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Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists, this history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social change
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List of Photographs Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction PART ONE. THE SETTING 1. Creating a Feminist Discourse 2 A Case of Circulating Feminism: The Ladies' Journal PART TWO. PORTRAITS 3· Forgotten Heroines: An Introduction to the Narrators 4· Lu Lihua (1900-1997): School Principal 5· Zhu Su'e (1901-): Attorney 6. Wang Yiwei (1905-1993): Editor in Chief 7· Chen Yongsheng (1900-1997): Educator 8. Huang Dinghui (1907-): Career Revolutionary Epilogue Glossary Bibliography Index
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"Rarely does a reviewer or publisher encounter a milestone: this is it. It is the first major study of the development of Chinese feminism in what is arguably the most formative period in the history of modern China. In its women-centered approach, the book challenges the official women's history authored by the Chinese Communist Party and long accepted by Euro-American scholars. This book will set the agenda for future scholars researching the relationship between feminism and nationalism in China."—Dorothy Ko, author of Teachers of the Inner Chambers
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780520218741
Publisert
1999-07-05
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
590 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
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