Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians,
anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion
raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender
practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and
transformation of older gender ideologies under the conditions of
modernity in China. While several studies have investigated gender
or labor in late imperial and twentieth century China, this book
brings these two concepts together, asking how these two categories
interacted and produced new social practices and theories.
Individual chapters examine agricultural and urban work, travel
within China, overseas study, polyandry, the acting profession,
courtesan culture, female politicians, Maoist work culture, and the
boundaries of virtue and respectability. Governing notions of the
social order (and interrelated constructions of gender) changed
radically in the modern era initially with the questioning of the
imperial, dynastic order and the creation of a Chinese republic in
the early twentieth century, later with the creation of a Communist
government and, most recently, with China's political and cultural
transformations in the post-Mao era. As ideas and practices of
gender have changed, the persistence of older rhetorical signs in
the interstices of new political visions has complicated the social
projects and understandings of modernity, especially in terms of
the creation of new public spaces, new concepts of work and virtue,
and new configurations of gender. Contributions by: Madeleine Yue
Dong, Bryna Goodman, Gail Hershatter, Ellen R. Judd, Joan Judge,
Wendy Larson, Susan Mann, Kenneth L. Pomeranz, Tze-lan Deborah
Sang, Matthew H. Sommer, Luo Suwen, Catherine Vance Yeh, and Wang
Zheng."
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