Bound to emancipate : working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong / / Angelina Chin.
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| Superior document: | Asia/Pacific/perspectives |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 279 p. :; ill. |
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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
- Nuling and Nu 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.