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Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China - Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform (Hardcover)
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Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China - Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform (Hardcover)
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In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms
to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational
weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First
Sino-Japanese War. The "Hundred Day's Reform" has received a great
deal of attention from historians who have focused on the
well-known male historical actors, but until now the Qing women
reformers have received almost no consideration. In this book,
historian Nanxiu Qian reveals the contributions of the active,
optimistic, and self-sufficient women reformers of the late Qing
Dynasty. Qian examines the late Qing reforms from the perspective
of Xue Shaohui, a leading woman writer who openly argued against
male reformers' approach that subordinated women's issues to larger
national concerns, instead prioritizing women's self-improvement
over national empowerment. Drawing upon intellectual and spiritual
resources from the freewheeling, xianyuan (worthy ladies) model of
the Wei-Jin period of Chinese history (220-420) and the culture of
women writers of late imperial China, and open to Western ideas and
knowledge, Xue and the reform-minded members of her social and
intellectual networks went beyond the inherited Confucian pattern
in their quest for an ideal womanhood and an ideal social order.
Demanding equal political and educational rights with men, women
reformers challenged leading male reformers' purpose of achieving
national "wealth and power," intending instead to unite women of
all nations in an effort to create a just and harmonious new world.
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