ISBN:
9781442215597
,
9781442215603
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 279 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Parallel Title:
Print version Bound to Emancipate : Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong
DDC:
305.4095109/04
Keywords:
Women employees History 20th century
;
Women's rights History 20th century
;
Women's rights History 20th century
;
Feminism History 20th century
;
Feminism History 20th century
;
Women History 20th century
;
Women employees History 20th century
;
Women History 20th century
;
Feminism - China - Hong Kong - History - 20th century
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration; Conclusion; Glossary; Works Cited; Index; About the Author
Description / Table of Contents:
Notes on transliteration -- Introduction: geographies of emancipation -- British colonialism and regulating women in Hong Kong -- Emancipating women from social customs (Fengsu) in 1920s Guangzhou -- Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong Kong -- The Fenghua protection movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935 -- Social control through charity : the role of the Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk in the 1930s -- Testimonies from the Po Leung Kuk -- Women service workers and labor activism -- Conclusion: lower-class women, "emancipation," and urban citizenship -- Glossary -- Works cited -- Index -- About the author.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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