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Birth of Chinese Feminism: The Writings of Kang Hang
Contributor(s): Liu, Lydia (Editor), Karl, Rebecca (Editor), Ko, Dorothy (Editor)
ISBN: 023116291X     ISBN-13: 9780231162913
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE:   $35.64  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- History | Asia - China
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 305.420
LCCN: 2012021352
Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 328 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Chinese
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Karl, Rebecca: - Rebecca Karl is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China (Duke, 2017), Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Duke, 2002), and (with Dorothy Ko and Lydia Liu), The Birth of Chinese Feminism (Columbia, 2013).