Bound to emancipate : working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chin, Angelina S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
Colección:Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Temas:
1900-1999
Women > China > History > 20th century.
Women > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century.
Women employees > China > History > 20th century.
Women employees > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century.
Women's rights > China > History > 20th century.
Women's rights > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century.
Feminism > China > History > 20th century.
Feminism > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century.
Femmes > Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Chine > Hongkong > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Personnel féminin > Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Personnel féminin > Chine > Hongkong > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Droits > Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Droits > Chine > Hongkong > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Féminisme > Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Féminisme > Chine > Hongkong > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Feminism
Women
Women employees
Women's rights
China
China > Hong Kong
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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