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Author Chin, Angelina S.

Title Bound to emancipate : working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong / Angelina Chin.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, plan.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes on transliteration -- Introduction: geographies of emancipation -- British colonialism and regulating women in Hong Kong -- Emancipating women from social customs (Fengsu) in 1920s Guangzhou -- Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong Kong -- The Fenghua protection movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935 -- Social control through charity : the role of the Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk in the 1930s -- Testimonies from the Po Leung Kuk -- Women service workers and labor activism -- Conclusion: lower-class women, "emancipation," and urban citizenship -- Glossary -- Works cited -- Index -- About the author.
Summary Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century Chinese society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands and reinterprets the meaning of women's emancipation by examining what this rhetoric meant to lower-class women. Challenging the nation-based framework of history by focusing on two cities, Chin compares colonial Hong Kong with Guangzhou, which allows her to seamlessly integrate colonial studies and China studies.
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Subject Women -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Women.
China.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.
China -- Hong Kong.
Women employees -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Women employees.
Women employees -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.
Women's rights -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Women's rights.
Women's rights -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism.
Feminism -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Feminism.
Women's movement.
Other Form: Print version: 9781442215597 1442215593 (DLC) 2012003031
ISBN 1442215615 (electronic book)
9781442215610 (electronic book)
9781442215597 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1442215593 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786613636768