If we place women at the center of our account of China's last two
centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened?
This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big
History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of
ordinary people, using gender as its analytic lens. Leading scholar
Gail Hershatter asks how these events affected women in particular,
and how women affected the course of these events. For instance,
did women have a 1911 revolution? A socialist revolution? If so,
what did those revolutions look like? Which women had them?
Hershatter uses two key themes to frame her analysis. The first is
the importance of women's visible and invisible labor. The labor of
women in domestic and public spaces shaped China's move from empire
to republic to socialist nation to rising capitalist power. The
second is the symbolic work performed by gender itself. What women
should do and be was a constant topic of debate during China's
transformation from empire to weak state to partially occupied
territory to nascent socialist republic to reform-era powerhouse.
What sorts of concerns did people express through the language of
gender? How did that language work, and why was it so powerful?
Drawing on decades of Hershatter's groundbreaking scholarship and
mastery of a range of literatures, this beautifully written book
will be essential reading for all students of China's modern
history.
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