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The Precious Raft of History - The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Hardcover)
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The Precious Raft of History - The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Hardcover)
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This book develops a new approach to historical change at the turn
of the twentieth century, a crucial stage in the unfolding of
Chinese modernity. Its focus is on the fraught and momentous woman
question, which foregrounded the cultural paradoxes and political
aspirations that define the era. Judge probes Chinese approaches to
their own past and the modern West (mediated via Japan) through a
close examination of the varied cultural and political uses of
female biography--a genre with a 2,000-year history in China and a
new political salience in the early twentieth century. She analyzes
the ways a range of male and female actors appropriated historical
Chinese and modern Western women's biographies to promote competing
visions of female virtue, talent, and heroism--and by extension, to
advance competing evaluations of China's ritual teachings, cultural
heritage, and national future. Judge cogently maps these various
approaches and establishes a new hermeneutics of historical change.
At the same time, she highlights disjunctions among representations
of exemplary heroines and between such representations and women's
actual lives by ending each chapter with a methodologically
innovative counterpoint. Excavating traces of the often highly
mediated experience of China's first generation of female political
activists, overseas students, schoolteachers, and public writers,
she questions the ways long-standing and newly defined gender
categories took on--or failed to take on--efficacy in women's
everyday lives. Judge concludes by evaluating how women's issues
continue to illuminate Chinese understandings of the past, the
West, and the nation at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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