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Women and China's Revolutions
\"This groundbreaking book traces China's modern history though the lives of women, Gail Hershatter provides the first comprehensive introduction to the changes in Chinese women's lives--and in the shared social ideas about what women should do and be--over the past two centuries of profound change on the Chinese mainland\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Republican lens
What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? InRepublican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding China's 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded ideologues of the late 1910s and largely overlooked in subsequent scholarship, this commercial culture has only recently begun to be rehabilitated in mainland China. Judge uses one of its most striking, innovative-and continually mischaracterized-products, the journalFunü shibao(The women's eastern times), as a lens onto the early years of China's first Republic. Redeeming both the value of the medium and the significance of the era, she demonstrates the extent to which the commercial press channeled and helped constitute key epistemic and gender trends in China's revolutionary twentieth century.The book develops a cross-genre and inter-media method for reading the periodical press and gaining access to the complexities of the past. Drawing on the full materiality of the medium, Judge reads cover art, photographs, advertisements, and poetry, editorials, essays, and readers' columns in conjunction with and against one another, as well as in their broader print, historical and global contexts. This yields insights into fundamental tensions that governed both the journal and the early Republic. It also highlights processes central to the arc of twentieth-century knowledge culture and social change: the valorization and scientization of the notion of \"experience,\" the public actualization of \"Republican Ladies,\" and the amalgamation of \"Chinese medicine\" and scientific biomedicine. It further revives the journal's editors, authors, medical experts, artists, and, most notably, its little known female contributors.Republican Lenscaptures the ingenuity of a journal that captures the chaotic potentialities within China's early Republic and its global twentieth century.
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Work and family in urban China : women's changing experience since Mao
\"This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China's recent market reform. Using interview data collected from women of three different cohorts in urban China, this study challenges China's free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women's work and family experiences. The book also explores urban women's non-market definitions of marital equality, and highlights theoretical and policy implications concerning market efficiency, marital equality, and the state's role in protecting public good.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Keeping the nation's house : domestic management and the making of modern China
Explores the vision and aspirations of elite Chinese women - home economists - who believed that the birth of modern China should begin in the home.
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Keeping the Nation's House
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Ideology of the Happy Family, 1915-48 -- 2 Gendered Responsibilities: Debates over Female Education in the Republican Period -- 3 Domestic Discipline: The Development of Home Economics Curricula -- 4 A Discipline of Their Own: Home Economists in Institutions of Higher Learning -- 5 Experimenting with the Family: Family Education Experimental Zones in the 1940s -- 6 Cleaning House: The Last Decade of a Gendered Discipline -- 7 The Post-1949 Politics of Home Economics: Stories of Professional Evolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms, Institutions, and Names -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Women and gender in twentieth-century China
\"A narrative and analytical account of Chinese women's experiences during the twentieth century. Synthesizing and incorporating the latest research, Paul J. Bailey assesses in particular the impact of political, cultural and social change in Chinese women's lives, and explores the evolution of gender discourses during this period.\"--Publisher's website.
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Women in china's long twentieth century
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 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.
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Remembering the Samsui Women
Remembering the Samsui Women tells the story of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China, who migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, while others worked in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as red-head-scarf, after the headgear that protected them from the sun. Contributing to current debates in the fields of social memory and migration studies, this is the first book to examine how the Samsui women remember their own migratory experiences and how they, in turn, are remembered as pioneering figures in both Singapore and China.
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