Women in the Chinese enlightenment : oral and textual histories / Wang Zheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Zheng, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--China--Social conditions.

Women.

Feminism--China.

Feminism.

Feminists--China--Interviews.

Feminists.

China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 402 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Photographs

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction

PART ONE. THE SETTING

1. Creating a Feminist Discourse

2. A Case of Circulating Feminism

PART TWO. PORTRAITS

3. Forgotten Heroines

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520922921

0520922921

9780585104461

0585104468

OCLC:

1224278842