Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 402 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780520922921
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0585104468
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9780585104461
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9780520213500
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0520213505
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9780520218741
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0520218744
Content:
"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."--Publisher description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and index
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Creating a feminist discourse -- A case of circulating feminism: The ladies' journal -- Forgotten heroines: an introduction to the narrators -- Lu Lihua (1900-1997): school principal -- Zhu Su'e (1901-- ): attorney -- Wang Yiwei (1905-1993): editor in chief -- Chen Yongsheng (1900-1997): educator -- Huang Dinghui (1907- ): career revolutionary.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wang, Zheng Women in the Chinese enlightenment Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999 ISBN 0520213505
Language:
English
