Bound to emancipate : working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2012.
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| Series: | Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
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
- Nüling and Nü 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.
