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Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China : The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement / by Qiliang He.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- He, Qiliang., Author.
- Series:
- Chinese Literature and Culture in the World, 2945-7262
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oriental literature.
- Sex.
- Ethnology--Asia.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Motion pictures--Asia.
- Motion pictures.
- Asian Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Asian Culture.
- Asian Film and TV.
- Local Subjects:
- Asian Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Asian Culture.
- Asian Film and TV.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XVI, 299 p. 10 illus.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2018.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- Summary:
- Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China's patriarchal system. Qiliang He's text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women's history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.
- Contents:
- Chapter 0: Introduction
- Chapter 1: In Search of Women's Agency in Everyday Life: The Construction of the Huang-Lu Love Affair in the Press
- Chapter 2: The Trials of Lu Genrong: The Criminal Law Reform and Women's Agency in Late 1920s China
- Chapter 3: Polysemy: Discussions and Debates on the Huang-Lu Love Affair
- Chapter 4: Polyphony: Vernacularized Feminisms and the Urban Network of Communication
- Chapter 5: Vernacularization as Global and Local Experiences: The Huang-Lu Affair in Film and Literature
- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319896922
- 331989692X
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