Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China - The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China's patriarchal system. Qiliang He's text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women's history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Qiliang He
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	299
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-89691-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	3-319-89691-1
Barcode:	9783319896915

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