Engendering the woman question : : men, women, and writing in China's early periodical press / / by Zhang Yun.

• Superior document: Women and gender in China studies ; Volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Zhang, Yun, 1986-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Women and gender in China studies ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Engendering the Woman Question , Zhang Yun adopts a new approach to examining the early Chinese women's periodical press. Rather than seeing this new print and publishing genre as a gendered site coded as either "feminine" or "masculine," this book approaches it as a mixed-gender public space where both men and women were intellectually active and involved in dynamic interactions to determine the contours of their discursive encounters. Drawing upon a variety of novel textual modes such as polemical essays, historical biography, public speech, and expository essays, this book opens a window onto men's and women's gender-specific approaches to a series of prominent topics central to the Chinese woman question in the early twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Articulating the Woman Question: Women's Literary Heritage, Education, and the Nation -- 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space in Nü xuebao -- 2 Debates on the Cainü Legacy -- 3 Asserting Intellectual Authority in the Public Space -- 4 Ambivalence: a Debate of Linguistic Registers -- 5 Conclusion -- 2 Nationalism and Beyond: Nüjie and the Construction of a New Gendered Collective Identity -- 1 The Cure for the Nation: Mobilizing Nüjie -- 2 A Nüjie of Their Own -- 3 Beyond Nationalism: Demanding a Revolution in Nüjie -- 4 Conclusion -- 3 The Manchu Woman Commits Suicide: Ethnicity and the Composition of the New Chinese Woman -- 1 A Sacrificial Martyr for a National Cause -- 2 Making a Manchu Heroine -- 3 Ethnicity and Gender: Manchu Women's Envisioning of Modern Womanhood -- 4 Conclusion -- 4 Fashioning Hygienic Womanhood: Women's Health and Bodies in Commercial Women's Journals -- 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space of the Commercial Women's Journals: Male Editorial Agency and Female Authorial Subjectivity -- 2 The Ideal of "Wise Mothers and Good Wives" -- 3 Women and Weisheng in the Household -- 4 Women's Hygiene and Reproductive Health -- 4.1 Menstruation -- 4.2 Childbirth -- 5 Conclusion -- 5 Policing Girl Students -- 1 Female Students in the Late Qing -- 2 The Republican Girl Student -- 3 Debates on Girl Students -- 4 Personal Accounts from Girl Students -- 5 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.