Translating Feminisms in China

This volume, which brings together eight articles by scholars and activists from China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, body and sexuality. Furthermore, these articles showcase the centrality of gender in the formation of modern China by demonstrating the extent to which translated feminisms - whatever they mean - have transformed the terms in which modern Chinese understand their own subjectivities and histories.

Dorothy Ko, a native of Hong Kong, is Professor of Chinese History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of the recent monograph, Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (2005).

Wang Zheng is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Associate Research Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories (1999) and co-editor with Xueping Zhong and Bai Di of Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (2002).

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction: Translating Feminisms in China	p. 1
Concepts of Women's Rights in Modern China	p. 13
Translating the New Woman: Chinese Feminists View the West, 1905-15	p. 35
Womanhood, Motherhood and Biology: The Early Phases of The Ladies' Journal, 1915-25	p. 70
Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on Jianmei (Robust Beauty) during China's 'National Crisis' in the 1930s	p. 104
Making a Great Leap Forward? The Politics of Women's Liberation in Maoist China	p. 138
'The Silver Flower Contest': Rural Women in 1950s China and the Gendered Division of Labour	p. 164
Rethinking the 'Iron Girls': Gender and Labour during the Chinese Cultural Revolution	p. 188
Who Is a Feminist? Understanding the Ambivalence towards Shanghai Baby, 'Body Writing' and Feminism in Post-Women's Liberation China	p. 215
Index	p. 247
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