Contemporary Chinese feminism has drawn much attention in academe and popular media,
yet its ontological roots and the politics of naming has largely escaped scrutiny. This paper …

In recent years, feminism has gradually become a buzzword in the global hyper-
commercialized popular culture. Young women and girls are encouraged to please and …

This first significant collection of essays on women in China in more than two decades
captures a pivotal moment in a cross-cultural—and interdisciplinary—dialogue. For the first …

The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly in the past two
decades that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdated in the time that it takes to …

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of
women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual …

This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese
women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely …

A feminist movement clashing with China's authoritarian government. Featured in the
Washington Post and the New York Times. On the eve of International Women's Day in …

Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this
century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist …

The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of
subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic. This …

Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores
the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and …