Feminisms with Chinese characteristics /edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao.
Feminisms with Chinese characteristics /edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (x, 380 pages) : illustrations.
- Gender and Globalization .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Feminisms with Chinese characteristics : an introduction / Chinese feminisms in the age of globalization. "Gender" trouble : feminism in China under the impact of Western theory and the spatialization of identity / Equality and gender equality with Chinese characteristics / The class characteristics of China's women's liberation and twenty-first-century feminism / The specter of polygamy in contemporary Chinese gender imaginations : an interview with Dai Jinhua / Chinese feminisms on the ground. Feminist struggles in a changing China / Why don't mainland Chinese liberals support feminism? / The formation of Chinese feminist linguistic tactics and discourse : adapting The vagina monologues for Chinese women / Chinese feminisms in women's literature, art, and film. "Am I a feminist?" : an interview with Wang Anyi / Wang Anyi's new Shanghai : gender and labor in Fu Ping / "I am fan Yusu" : Baomu writing and grassroots feminism against the postsocialist patriarchy / Over 1.5 tons : subversive destruction and counter-monumentality to the phallic archetype / Screen feminisms with Hong Kong characteristics / Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao -- Nicola Spakowski -- Li Xiaojiang -- Xueping Zhong -- Wu Haiyun -- Wang Zheng -- Li Jun (aka Li Sipan) -- Ke Qianting -- Liu Jindong -- Ping Zhu -- Hui Faye Xiao -- Shuqin Cui -- Gina Marchetti.
"The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female agency, creating a vibrant, women-oriented cultural milieu in China; third, in response to ethnocentric Western feminism, some Chinese feminist scholars and activists recuperated the legacies of socialist China's state feminism and gender policies in a new millennium. These trends have brought Chinese women unprecedented choices, resources, opportunities, pitfalls, challenges, and even crises. In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural "feminisms" with "Chinese characteristics," they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms, and, stress the difference between the plethora of contemporary Chinese feminisms and the singular state feminism. The twelve chapters in this interdisciplinary collection address the theme of feminisms with Chinese characteristics from different perspectives rendered from lived experiences, historical reflections, theoretical ruminations, and cultural and sociopolitical critiques, painting a panoramic picture of Chinese feminisms in the age of globalization."--
9780815655268
Feminism--History--China--21st century.
Sex role--History--China--21st century.
MeToo movement--China.
Feminism in literature.
Electronic Books.
HQ1767 / .F465 2021
Includes bibliographies and index.
Feminisms with Chinese characteristics : an introduction / Chinese feminisms in the age of globalization. "Gender" trouble : feminism in China under the impact of Western theory and the spatialization of identity / Equality and gender equality with Chinese characteristics / The class characteristics of China's women's liberation and twenty-first-century feminism / The specter of polygamy in contemporary Chinese gender imaginations : an interview with Dai Jinhua / Chinese feminisms on the ground. Feminist struggles in a changing China / Why don't mainland Chinese liberals support feminism? / The formation of Chinese feminist linguistic tactics and discourse : adapting The vagina monologues for Chinese women / Chinese feminisms in women's literature, art, and film. "Am I a feminist?" : an interview with Wang Anyi / Wang Anyi's new Shanghai : gender and labor in Fu Ping / "I am fan Yusu" : Baomu writing and grassroots feminism against the postsocialist patriarchy / Over 1.5 tons : subversive destruction and counter-monumentality to the phallic archetype / Screen feminisms with Hong Kong characteristics / Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao -- Nicola Spakowski -- Li Xiaojiang -- Xueping Zhong -- Wu Haiyun -- Wang Zheng -- Li Jun (aka Li Sipan) -- Ke Qianting -- Liu Jindong -- Ping Zhu -- Hui Faye Xiao -- Shuqin Cui -- Gina Marchetti.
"The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female agency, creating a vibrant, women-oriented cultural milieu in China; third, in response to ethnocentric Western feminism, some Chinese feminist scholars and activists recuperated the legacies of socialist China's state feminism and gender policies in a new millennium. These trends have brought Chinese women unprecedented choices, resources, opportunities, pitfalls, challenges, and even crises. In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural "feminisms" with "Chinese characteristics," they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms, and, stress the difference between the plethora of contemporary Chinese feminisms and the singular state feminism. The twelve chapters in this interdisciplinary collection address the theme of feminisms with Chinese characteristics from different perspectives rendered from lived experiences, historical reflections, theoretical ruminations, and cultural and sociopolitical critiques, painting a panoramic picture of Chinese feminisms in the age of globalization."--
9780815655268
Feminism--History--China--21st century.
Sex role--History--China--21st century.
MeToo movement--China.
Feminism in literature.
Electronic Books.
HQ1767 / .F465 2021