‘Slavery,’ Citizenship, and Gender in Late Qing China’s Global Context

Karl, Rebecca E.

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“…If Chinese women are liberated, the Chinese nation will be strong, leaving both feudalism and the precarious sovereignty of semicolonialism behind (R. Chow 1991;Hershatter 1993Hershatter , 1997Greenhalgh 2001;Karl 2002). As many historians of women and the Chinese revolution have pointed out, this formulation put gender equality on the agenda of all revolutionary parties and many intellectuals in the twentieth century.…”

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State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Hershatter¹

2004

J of Asian Stud

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State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

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2004

J of Asian Stud

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“…If Chinese women are liberated, the Chinese nation will be strong, leaving behind both feudalism and the precarious sovereignty of semicolonialism (R. Chow 1991b;Hershatter 1993Hershatter , 1997Greenhalgh 2001;Karl 2002). Long before the emergence of the PRC and its policies, "the woman question" focused on a critique of Chinese state forms that shaded over into a critique of Chinese civilization itself.…”

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“…In twentieth-century China, women were figures through which national modernity was imagined, often articulated through a language of crisis: if the status of women is not raised, if the factors that drive women into prostitution are not ameliorated, the nation will perish. If Chinese women are liberated, the Chinese nation will be strong, leaving behind both feudalism and the precarious sovereignty of semicolonialism (R. Chow 1991b; Hershatter 1993 Hershatter , 1997Greenhalgh 2001;Karl 2002). Long before the emergence of the PRC and its policies, "the woman question" focused on a critique of Chinese state forms that shaded over into a critique of Chinese civilization itself.…”

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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Hershatter¹

2007

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Description:This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of modern China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past. Author:Gail Hershatter is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among her books is Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Review:"An important and much-needed introduction to a rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb." -Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953 WOMEN IN CHINA'S LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY GAIL HERSHATTER Women in China's Long Twentieth CenturyWomen in China's Long Twentieth Century Gail Hershatter Global, Area, and International Archive University of California Press Berkeley los Angeles LondonThe Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA) is an initiative of International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the University of California Press, the California Digital Library, and international research programs across the UC system. GAIA volumes, which are published in both print and open-access digital editions, represent the best traditions of regional studies, reconfigured through fresh global, transnational, and thematic perspectives.University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. Hershatter, Gail. Women in China's long twentieth century / Gail Hershatter. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-520-09856-5 (pbk.: alk. paper), isbn-10: 0-520-09856-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) University of California Press1. Women -China -Social conditions -20th century. 2. Women -Employment -China. 3. Sex role -China. 4. Women and communism -China. 5. Feminism -China. I. University of California, Berkeley. Global, Area, and International Archive. II. Title. HQ1767. H47 2007 305.40951'0904-dc22 2006029808 Manufactured in the United States of America 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39. 48-1992 (r1997) The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly since the mid-1980s that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdate...

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“…Intended to address women readers, these newspapers in fact became a forum for the Chinese male elite to discuss women's issues among themselves. In their writings, Chinese women were often portrayed as an enslaved group in need of saving by the male-led national modernization (Karl, 2002;Nivard, 1984;Ono, 1989). Some of these male writers/editors, instead of explicitly revealing their male identity, presented their writings and publications as from a 'female' voice.…”

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2007

Media, Culture & Society

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This article examines the historical emergence of a women's public sphere in early 20th-century China, a time when modernization was at the top of the national agenda, by looking at how some women — who belonged to the scholar-gentry class and had experience of the West — became journalists. These women carved out a distinctively women's public sphere by establishing a press that was both for women and by women. While Chinese male intellectuals envisioned women's press merely as instrument for enlightening and educating women, women journalists promoted women's journalism as a public forum, particularly for women to participate in discussions of modernization. Struggling against the fact that women in China were traditionally perceived as a subordinate and incapable group, these women journalists had to utilize their elite background to claim credit for their writings and secure their place in the public discursive field.

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‘Slavery,’ Citizenship, and Gender in Late Qing China’s Global Context

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State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

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