CHINESE

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories

By Zheng Wang

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0520213505, 9780520213500
Language
chinese
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5803431 bytes)
Pages
417\359
Topic
History
Time added
2018-03-28 03:43:44
China;Asia;History;Women in History;World;History;

Description

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.

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