Feminism, women's agency, and communication in early twentieth-century China : the case of the Huang-Lu elopement

He, Qiliang 1974- (author.).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 3319896911
ISBN: 9783319896915
ISBN: 331989692X
ISBN: 9783319896922
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Way Down East in the Chinese MarketTears and Flowers: Griffith-Inspired Melodrama Films; Tears and Flowers I; Tears and Flowers II; The Motion Picture as a Means of Vernacularization; The Misled Memory; Living Hell in Shanghai: The Modern Girl in a Popular Novel; Left-Wingers and the Huang-Lu Affair; The Huang-Lu Affair in Living Hell in Shanghai: A Hidden Social Vice Exposed; "Social Fiction"/"Black-Screen Fiction"; Social Fiction and the Newspaper; Network and Urban Community; Secret and Black Screen; The Fantasy of Modern Girl: New Sensationalism; References; Chapter 7: Conclusion.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 19, 2018).