The golden key : : modern women artists and gender negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949) / / Amanda Wangwright.

• Superior document: Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture ; Volume 7
• VerfasserIn: Wangwright, Amanda,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Modern Asian art and visual culture ; Volume 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 153 pages) :; illustrations (some color).
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; The Golden Key of Art /; A Beacon in the Distance /; By Any Other Name /; Nude Ambition /; Embattled Careers /; Under the Power of the Times /; Endnotes /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004443940
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Amanda Wangwright.

The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key recovers the history of a groundbreaking yet forgotten force in China's modern art world. Through its detailed examination of the lives and careers of six female artists-Guan Zilan, Qiu Ti, Pan Yuliang, Fang Junbi, Yu Feng, and Liang Baibo-this book argues that women were central to the emergence of modernist art in early twentieth-century China and to the nation's larger modernization project. Amanda S. Wangwright's analysis of a wealth of primary sources demonstrates how these women constructed public personas, negotiated space within art societies, applied feminist thought to their artistic praxis, and surmounted obstacles to their careers-wielding art as the "golden key" to professional advancement and gender equality.