- 417 pages
- English
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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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
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 h
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents 1
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- PART ONE THE SETTING
- 1 Creating a Feminist Discourse
- 2 A Case of Circulating Feminism The Ladiesâ Journal
- PART TWO PORTRAITS
- 3 Forgotten Heroines An Introduction to the Narrators
- 4 Lu Lihua (1900-1997): School Principal
- 5 Zhu Suâe (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