1. Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China : The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement
- Author
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Qiliang He and Qiliang He
- Subjects
- Ethnology--Asia, Literature, Oriental literature, Motion pictures--Asia, Communication--China--History--20th century, Feminism--China--History--20th century, Women in mass media, Women--China--Social conditions--History--20th century, Literature and society--China--History--20th century, Literature, Modern, Women--China--Social conditions--20th century
- Abstract
Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China's patriarchal system. Qiliang He's text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women's history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.
- Published
- 2018