Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-07833-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 299 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Reihe: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

He, Qiliang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 0: Introduction.- Chapter 1: In Search of Women’s Agency in Everyday Life: The Construction of the Huang-Lu Love Affair in the Press.- Chapter 2: The Trials of Lu Genrong: The Criminal Law Reform and Women’s Agency in Late 1920s China.- Chapter 3: Polysemy: Discussions and Debates on the Huang-Lu Love Affair.- Chapter 4: Polyphony: Vernacularized Feminisms and the Urban Network of Communication.- Chapter 5: Vernacularization as Global and Local Experiences: The Huang-Lu Affair in Film and Literature.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Qiliang He is Associate Professor in History at Illinois State University, USA. He is the author of Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta Since 1949 (2012) and numerous articles on cultural history in twentieth-century China. He has also translated three books on Chinese history.