Angelina Chin

Bound to Emancipate

Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong

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Produktbeschreibung

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 history by focusing on two cities, Chin compares colonial Hong Kong with Guangzhou, which allows her to seamlessly integrate colonial studies and China studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781442215597
• ISBN-10: 1442215593
• Artikelnr.: 34762265

Autorenporträt

Angelina Chin is assistant professor of history at Pomona College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Geographies of Emancipation
Chapter 2: British Colonialism and Regulating Women in Hong Kong
Chapter 3: Emancipating Women from Social Customs (Fengsu) in 1920s
Guangzhou
Chapter 4:  Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong
Kong
Chapter 5:  The Fenghua Protection Movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935
Chapter 6: Social Control through Charity: The Role of the Hong Kong Po
Leung Kuk in the 1930s
Chapter 7: Testimonies from the Po Leung Kuk
Chapter 8:  Women Service Workers and Labor Activism
Conclusion: Lower-Class Women, "Emancipation," and Urban Citizenship
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