How are the public and political lives of Chinese women constrained
by states and economies? And how have pockets of women's
consciousness come to be produced in and disseminated from this
traditionally masculine milieu? The essays in this volume examine
the possibilities for a public sphere for Chinese women, one that
would both emerge from concrete historical situations and local
contexts and cut across the political boundaries separating the
Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the West.
The challenges of this project are taken up in essays on the
legacy of state feminism on the Mainland as contrasted with a
grassroots women's movement challenging the state in Taiwan; on the
role of the capitalist consumer economy in the emerging lesbian
movement in Taiwan; and on the increased trafficking of women as
brides, prostitutes, and mistresses between the Mainland and
wealthy male patrons in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The writers' examples
of masculine domination in the media include the reformulation of
Chinese women in Fifth Generation films for a transnational Western
male film audience and the portrayal of Mainland women in Taiwanese
and Hong Kong media. The contributors also consider male
nationalism as it is revealed through both international sports
coverage on television and in a Chinese television drama. Other
works examine a women's museum, a telephone hotline in Beijing, the
films of Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, the transnational contacts of
a Taiwanese feminist organization, the diaspora of Mainland women
writers, and the differences between Chinese and Western feminist
themes.
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