Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories

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Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories

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.

Country	USA
Author	Wang Zheng
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520922921
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	417
PublicationDate	1999-07-05
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	1999-07-05
Studio	University of California Press

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