Translating Feminisms in China

Dorothy Ko (Editor), Wang Zheng (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6170-1

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264 pages

November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

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Introduction: Translating Feminisms in China: WANG Zheng and Dorothy KO.

1. Concepts of Women’s Rights in Modern China: Mizuyo SUDO.

2. Translating the New Woman: Chinese Feminists View the West, 1905-1915: Carol C. CHIN.

3. Womanhood, Motherhood and Biology: The Early Phases of The Ladies’ Journal, 1915-1925: Yung-chen CHIANG.

4. The Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on ‘Jianmei’ (Robust Beauty) during China’s ‘National Crisis’ in the 1930s: Yunxiang GAO.

5. Making a Great Leap Forward? The Politics of Women’s Liberation in Maoist China: Kimberley Ens MANNING.

6. ‘The Silver Flower Contest’: Rural Women in the 1950s and the Gendered Division of Labour: GAO Xiaoxian.

7. Rethinking the ‘Iron Girls’: Gender and Labour during the Chinese Cultural Revolution: JIN Yihong.

8. Who Is a Feminist? Understanding the Ambivalence towards Shanghai Baby, ‘Body Writing’ and Feminism in Post-Women’s Liberation China: Xueping ZHONG