Bound to Emancipate - Working Women Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth Century China

Informationen zum Autor By Angelina Chin Klappentext Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century Chinese society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands and reinterprets the meaning of women's emancipation by examining what this rhetoric meant to lower-class women. Challenging the nation-based framework of history by focusing on two cities, Chin compares colonial Hong Kong with Guangzhou, which allows her to seamlessly integrate colonial studies and China studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: Geographies of EmancipationChapter 2: British Colonialism and Regulating Women in Hong KongChapter 3: Emancipating Women from Social Customs (Fengsu) in 1920s GuangzhouChapter 4:  Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong Kong Chapter 5:  The Fenghua Protection Movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935Chapter 6: Social Control through Charity: The Role of the Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk in the 1930sChapter 7: Testimonies from the Po Leung KukChapter 8:  Women Service Workers and Labor ActivismConclusion: Lower-Class Women, "Emancipation," and Urban CitizenshipGlossaryWorks Cited

Product details

• Authors: Angelina Chin, Chin Angelina
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9781442215597
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1559-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives; Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Gender studies: women, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Civics and citizenship, Asian studies;China studies