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Title: The Birth of Chinese Feminism
Condition: New
Subtitle: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
Author: Lydia H. Liu
Contributor: Lydia H. Liu (Edited by), Rebecca Karl (Edited by), Dorothy Ko (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0231162901
EAN: 9780231162906
ISBN: 9780231162906
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Date: 26/03/2013
Description: He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical problems. This volume, the first translation and study of He-Yin's work in English, critically reconstructs early twentieth-century Chinese feminist thought in a transnational context by juxtaposing He-Yin Zhen's writing against works by two better-known male interlocutors of her time. The editors begin with a detailed analysis of He-Yin Zhen's life and thought. They then present annotated translations of six of her major essays, as well as two foundational tracts by her male contemporaries, Jin Tianhe (1874-1947) and Liang Qichao (1873-1929), to which He-Yin's work responds and with which it engages. Jin, a poet and educator, and Liang, a philosopher and journalist, understood feminism as a paternalistic cause that liberals like themselves should defend. He-Yin presents an alternative conception that draws upon anarchism and other radical trends.Ahead of her time, He-Yin Zhen complicates conventional accounts of feminism and China's history, offering original perspectives on sex, gender, labor, and power that remain relevant today.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Book Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
Release Year: 2013

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