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Author: Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Publisher:
Published: 1937
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book deals with the transformation of ancient into modern China as seen through women's eyes, and includes biographies of outstanding women who have hlped to bring about this change and who are typical of the old and new in China.--Provided by publisher.
Author: Louise Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1107146038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies, shedding new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation.
Author: Li Yu-ning
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-17
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1317474716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays by Western-educated Chinese women and men, on the historical role of women in a time of great social and economic upheaval. Part Two - Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China - presents the views of women who experienced life in this period through essays and autobiographies that range from women as concubines to women as factory workers, from women suffering footbinding to women serving as nurses, from women in traditional role in a traditional family to women as scientists and teachers.
Author: Julia C. Lin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1317453204
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It spans the early 1920s and the era of Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century. The collection includes 245 poems by forty poets in elegant English translations, as well as an extensive introduction that surveys the history of contemporary Chinese women's poetry. Brief biographical head notes introduce each poet, from Bin Xin, China's preeminent woman poet in the early Republican period, to Rongzi, a leading poet of modern Taiwan. The selections are startling, moving, and wide-ranging in mood and tone. Together they present an enticing palette of delightful, elegant, playful, lyric, and tragic poetry.
Author: Li Ma
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-01-28
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1793631573
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christian Women and Modern China presents a social history of women pioneers in Chinese Protestantism from the 1880s to the 2010s. The author interrupts a hegemonic framework of historical narratives by exploring formal institutions and rules as well as social networks and social norms that shape the lived experiences of women. This book achieves a more nuanced understanding about the interplays of Christianity, gender, power and modern Chinese history. It reintroduces Chinese Christian women pioneers not only to women’s history and the history of Chinese Christianity, but also to the history of global Christian mission and the global history of many modern professions, such as medicine, education, literature, music, charity, journalism, and literature.
Author: Haiping Yan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-11-22
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1134570899
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book works equally well in the following multiple fields: Gender Studies, Literary/Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Asian and Pacific Studies, Chinese Studies, Critical Theory and Literary Historiography
Author: Ping-Chun Hsiung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1000181642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a vital force to the present day. The political and social changes taking place in contemporary Chinese society have, surprisingly, received scant attention. This volume enriches our understanding of the working of grassroots democracy in China by exploring women's popular organizing activities and their interaction with party-state institutions. By subjecting these activities to both empirical enquiry and theoretical scrutiny, a rigorous analysis of the exchange, dialogue, negotiation and transformation among and within three groups of political actors - popular women's groups, religious groups and the All China Women's Federation - is concisely presented to the reader. This book will be of tremendous interest to students of Chinese Studies, Political Science and Gender Studies alike.
