Women Of China

Author : Xinran
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307485533

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The Good Women of China by Xinran Pdf

When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, “Words on the Night Breeze” sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history.

Author : Xinran
Publisher : Random House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407063669

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The Good Women Of China by Xinran Pdf

For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze became famous through the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern China. Centuries of obedience to their fathers, husbands and sons, followed by years of political turmoil had made women terrified of talking openly about their feelings. Xinran won their trust and, through her compassion and ability to listen, became the first woman to hear their true stories. This unforgettable book is the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through the vivid intimacy of her writing, the women's voices confide in the reader, sharing their deepest secrets for the first time. Their stories changed Xinran's understanding of China forever. Her book will reveal the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before.

Author : Leta Hong Fincher
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783607914

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Leftover Women by Leta Hong Fincher Pdf

‘Scattered with inspiring life-stories of courageous women.’ The Guardian In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era. Contrary to the image presented by China’s media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. In Leftover Women, Leta Hong Fincher exposes shocking levels of structural discrimination against women, and the broader damage this has caused to China’s economy, politics, and development.

Author : Kay Ann Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226401942

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Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China by Kay Ann Johnson Pdf

Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.

Author : Robin D. S. Yates
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004176225

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Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present by Robin D. S. Yates Pdf

This essential reference work provides an alphabetic listing, with an extensive "index," of studies on women in China from earliest times to the present day written in Western languages, primarily English, French, German, and Italian. Containing more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, especially those published in the last thirty years, and more than 100 titles of doctoral dissertations and Masters theses, it covers works written in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; art and archaeology; demography; economics; education; fashion; film and media studies; history; interdisciplinary studies; law; literature; music; medicine, science, and technology; political science; and religion and philosophy. It also contains many citations of studies of women in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439106495

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Wild Swans by Jung Chang Pdf

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

Author : Roseann Lake
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393254631

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Leftover in China by Roseann Lake Pdf

Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China’s single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future. Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China’s first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys, these girls were pushed to study, excel in college, and succeed in careers, as if they were sons. Now living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage—or not marry at all—to spawn a label: "leftovers." Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of being wed. Further complicating their search for a mate, the vast majority of China’s single men reside in and are tied to the rural areas where they were raised. This makes them geographically, economically, and educationally incompatible with city-dwelling “leftovers,” who also face difficulty in partnering with urban men, given the urban men’s general preference for more dutiful, domesticated wives. Part critique of China’s paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China’s trailblazing women and their well-meaning parents who are anxious to see their daughters snuggled into traditional wedlock, Roseann Lake’s Leftover in China focuses on the lives of four individual women against a backdrop of colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how these "leftovers" are the linchpin to China’s future.

Author : Barbara Bennett Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317463726

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Notable Women of China by Barbara Bennett Peterson Pdf

The collaborative effort of nearly 100 China scholars from around the world, this unique one-volume reference provides 89 in-depth biographies of important Chinese women from the fifth century B.C.E to the early twentieth century.

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520098565

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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century by Gail Hershatter Pdf

“An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb.” —Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953

Author : Kathryn Bernhardt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0804735271

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Women and Property in China, 960-1949 by Kathryn Bernhardt Pdf

Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30.

Author : Jiaran Zheng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811007774

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New Feminism in China by Jiaran Zheng Pdf

This book is based on rich empirical data and findings concerning the lives, perceptions and ambitions of young middle-class female graduates, thus providing essential insights into the lives and viewpoints of a previously unresearched group in China from a feminist scholarly perspective. The study shows how the lives of young women and debates over youthful femininity lie at the very heart of modern Chinese history and society. With a central focus on women's issues, the book's ultimate goal is to enable Western readers to better understand the changing ideologies and the overall social domain of China under the leadership of President Xi. The empirical data presented includes interviews and group discussions, as well as illustrations, tables and images collected during a prolonged period of fieldwork. The insights shared here will facilitate cross-cultural communication with both Western feminist academics and readers who are sensitive to different cultures.

Author : Esther Shu-shin Lee Yao
Publisher : Mesquite, Tex. : Ide House
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039429977

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Chinese Women, Past & Present by Esther Shu-shin Lee Yao Pdf

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442271661

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Women in Imperial China by Bret Hinsch Pdf

This accessible text offers a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period through the end of the Qing dynasty in the early twentieth century. Rather than providing an exhaustive chronicle of this vast subject, Bret Hinsch pinpoints the themes that characterized distinct periods in Chinese women’s history and delves into the perception of female identity in each era. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the late imperial era, Hinsch explores how gender relations have developed and changed since ancient times. His chronological look at the most important female roles in every major dynasty showcases not only the constraints women faced but also their vast accomplishments throughout the millennia. Hinsch’s extensive use of Chinese-language scholarship lends his book a fresh perspective rare among Western scholars. Professors and students will find this an invaluable textbook for Chinese women’s studies and an excellent supplement for courses in gender studies and Chinese history.

Author : Li Ma
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793631572

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Christian Women and Modern China by Li Ma Pdf

Christian Women and Modern China presents a social history of women pioneers in Chinese Protestantism from the 1880s to the 2010s. The author interrupts a hegemonic framework of historical narratives by exploring formal institutions and rules as well as social networks and social norms that shape the lived experiences of women. This book achieves a more nuanced understanding about the interplays of Christianity, gender, power and modern Chinese history. It reintroduces Chinese Christian women pioneers not only to women’s history and the history of Chinese Christianity, but also to the history of global Christian mission and the global history of many modern professions, such as medicine, education, literature, music, charity, journalism, and literature.

Author : Marilyn Blatt Young
Publisher : Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000481287

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Women in China by Marilyn Blatt Young Pdf

Eleven articles explore the changing status, both actual and ideological, of women in twentieth-century China