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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300013403321

Autore

He Qiliang

Titolo

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China : The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement / / by Qiliang He

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319896922

331989692X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 299 p. 10 illus.)

Collana

Chinese Literature and Culture in the World, , 2945-7262

Disciplina

809.5

Soggetti

Oriental literature

Sex

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Motion pictures - Asia

Asian Literature

Gender Studies

Asian Culture

Asian Film and TV

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 0: Introduction -- Chapter 1: In Search of Women's Agency in Everyday Life: The Construction of the Huang-Lu Love Affair in the Press -- Chapter 2: The Trials of Lu Genrong: The Criminal Law Reform and Women's Agency in Late 1920s China -- Chapter 3: Polysemy: Discussions and Debates on the Huang-Lu Love Affair -- Chapter 4: Polyphony: Vernacularized Feminisms and the Urban Network of Communication -- Chapter 5: Vernacularization as Global and Local Experiences: The Huang-Lu Affair in Film and Literature -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of



society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China's patriarchal system. Qiliang He's text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women's history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.