Women and the periodical press in China's long twentieth century : a space of their own? / edited by Michel Hockx, Joan Judge, Barbara Mittler.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hockx, Michel, editor.

Judge, Joan, 1958- editor.

Mittler, Barbara, editor.

University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies.

Conference Name:

Gender and transcultural production (2011 : SOAS University of London)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's periodicals, Chinese--China--History.

Women's periodicals, Chinese.

Women journalists--China--History.

Women journalists.

Women in journalism--China.

Women in journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In this major new collection, an international team of scholars examine the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press and global modernity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays in this richly illustrated volume probe the ramifications for women of two monumental developments in this period: the intensification of China's encounters with foreign powers and a media transformation comparable in its impact to the current internet age. The book offers a distinctive methodology for studying the periodical press, which is supported by the development of a bilingual database of early Chinese periodicals. Throughout the study, essays on China are punctuated by transdisciplinary reflections from scholars working on periodicals outside of the Chinese context, encouraging readers to rethink common stereotypes about lived womanhood in modern China, and to reconsider the nature of Chinese modernity in a global context.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2018).

ISBN:

1-108-32965-9

1-108-30408-7

1-108-33109-2