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1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) : illustrations |
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Chinese literature and culture in the world
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Chinese literature and culture in the world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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In search of women's agency in everyday life : the construction of the Huang-Lu love affair in the press -- The trials of Lu Genrong : the criminal law reform and women's agency in late 1920s China -- Polysemy : discussions and debates on the Huang-Lu love affair -- Polyphony : vernacularized feminisms and the urban network of communication -- Vernacularization as global and local experiences : the Huang-Lu affair in film and literature. |
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Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Elopement; May Fourth Feminisms; Women's Agency; Vernacularization of May-Fourth Feminisms; Public; Conservatisms; Chapter Design; References; Chapter 2: In Search of Women's Agency in Everyday Life: The Construction of the Huang-Lu Love Affair in the Press; The Arrest of Lu Genrong: The News Story as Classical Fiction; The Spectacularity and Performativity of the Trials; The Trial of August 24, 1928; Playing Out a New Woman; The Trial of October 22, 1928; From Rural to Urban: Huang's Interactions with the Press. |
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Life in the CountrysideIn the Hospital in Suzhou; Closing the Social Drama: Birth and Death; The Birth of Huang Huiru's Son; Huang Huiru's Death?; One Man's Fight: The Making of a Personal Identity; References; Chapter 3: The Trials of Lu Genrong: The Criminal Law Reform and Women's Agency in Late 1920s China; Woman's Agency in the GMD Legal Codes; Women's Sexuality in Criminal Law Reforms in Twentieth-Century China; The Criminal Law Reform in the Late Qing and Early Republican Times; The GMD's 1928 Criminal Code; Heyou or Lüeyou: The Trials of Lu Genrong; Heyou: The Trial of August 1928. |
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Lüeyou: The Trial of October 1928Heyou and Lüeyou Revisited; Punishing Lu Genrong; Legal Practice in Republican China Reconsidered; Legal Body in Republican China: Not a Monolithic Organ; Vernacularization as Unofficial Resistance to the Legal Reform; References; Chapter 4: Polysemy: Discussions and Debates on the Huang-Lu Love Affair; Love and Revolution; Debates: Anarcho-Feminism; Debates: Sexual Anarchism; Debates: The "Doctrine of the Woman's Return to Home"; Zou Taofen's "Unconventional" Solution; References. |
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Chapter 5: Polyphony: Vernacularized Feminisms and the Urban Network of CommunicationThe News Industry in the Late 1920s; Suzhou mingbao vs. Shi bao: Collaboration; Shi bao vs. Other Shanghai-Based Daily Newspapers: Competition; The News Network; Beijing Opera; Tanci; Tanhuang; Farce Drama (Huaji xi); Other Folklorist Arts; The Gramophone Industry; The Tobacco Industry; Vernacularization in Popular Culture; Elite Intellectuals' Scandalization of the Huang-Lu Affair; References; Chapter 6: Vernacularization as Global and Local Experiences: The Huang-Lu Affair in Film and Literature. |
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Way Down East in the Chinese MarketTears and Flowers: Griffith-Inspired Melodrama Films; Tears and Flowers I; Tears and Flowers II; The Motion Picture as a Means of Vernacularization; The Misled Memory; Living Hell in Shanghai: The Modern Girl in a Popular Novel; Left-Wingers and the Huang-Lu Affair; The Huang-Lu Affair in Living Hell in Shanghai: A Hidden Social Vice Exposed; "Social Fiction"/"Black-Screen Fiction"; Social Fiction and the Newspaper; Network and Urban Community; Secret and Black Screen; The Fantasy of Modern Girl: New Sensationalism; References; Chapter 7: Conclusion. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
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Literature and society -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Communication -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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China -- Social conditions -- 1912-1949.
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Women -- China -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century.
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Women in mass media.
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Literature.
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Ethnology -- Asia.
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Motion pictures -- Asia.
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Oriental literature.
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Literature, Modern.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Literature, Modern |
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Social conditions |
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Oriental literature |
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Motion pictures |
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Literature and society |
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Literature |
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Feminism |
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Ethnology |
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Communication |
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Women in mass media |
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Women -- Social conditions |
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Asia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxMpyjKQ9Jtm3jkjPBgKd |
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China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3 |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: He, Qiliang, 1974- Feminism, women's agency, and communication in early twentieth-century China. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 9783319896915 (DLC) 2018941728 (OCoLC)1028602158 |
| ISBN |
9783319896922 (electronic bk.) |
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331989692X (electronic bk.) |
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9783319896915 |
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3319896911 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-89692-2 |
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