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Author Liu, Lydia H.

Title The Birth of Chinese Feminism : Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (325 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Weatherhead books on Asia
Weatherhead books on Asia.
Contents Acknowledgments; List of Chinese Dynasties and a Note on Translation; Introduction: Toward a Transnational Feminist Theory; The Historical Context: Chinese Feminist Worlds at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; He-Yin Zhen; Biography; "On the Question of Women's Liberation"-He-Yin Zhen (1907); "On the Question of Women's Labor"-He-Yin Zhen (1907); "Economic Revolution and Women's Revolution"- He-Yin Zhen (1907); "On the Revenge of Women" Part 1: Instruments of Men's Rule Over Women-He-Yin Zhen (1907); "On the Revenge of Women" Part 2: Atrocities of Men Against Women.
"On Feminist Antimilitarism"-He-Yin Zhen (1907)"The Feminist Manifesto"-He-Yin Zhen (1907); Liang Qichao; Biography; "On Women's Education"-Liang Qichao (1897); Jin Tianhe; Biography; "The Women's Bell"-Jin Tianhe (1903); Preface; Part 1: Introduction; Part 2: Women's Morality; Part 3: Women's Character; Part 4: Women's Capabilities; Part 5: Methods for Educating Women; Part 6: The Rights of Women; Part 7: Women's Participation in Politics; Part 8: On the Evolution of Marriage; Part 9: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Summary He-Yin Zhen (1886?1920) was a female theorist who played a central role in the birth of Chinese feminism. Editor of a prominent feminist-anarchist journal in the early twentieth century and exponent of a particularly incisive analysis of China and the world. Unlike her contemporaries, He-Yin Zhen was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global and transhistorical problems. Her bold writings were considered radical and dangerous in her lifetime and gradually have been erased from the.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Feminism -- China -- History.
Feminism.
China.
History.
Feminists -- China -- Biography.
Feminists.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Feminism.
Women's movement.
Feminists.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Karl, Rebecca E.
Ko, Dorothy, 1957-
Other Form: Print version: Liu, Lydia H. Birth of Chinese Feminism : Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231162913
ISBN 9780231533263 (electronic book)
0231533268 (electronic book)
9780231162906 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0231162901 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780231162913 (paperback)
023116291X (paperback)