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Birth of Chinese Feminism Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

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ISBN-10: 023116291X

ISBN-13: 9780231162913

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lydia Liu, Rebecca Karl, Dorothy Ko

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He-Yin Zhen (1886--1920) was a female theorist who played a central role in the birth of Chinese feminism. Editor of a prominent feminist-anarchist journal in the early twentieth century and exponent of a particularly incisive analysis of China and the world. Unlike her contemporaries, He-Yin Zhen was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global and transhistorical problems. Her bold writings were considered radical and dangerous in her lifetime and gradually have been erased from the historical record. This volume, the first translation and study of He-Yin's work in English or…    
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Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.