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Translating Feminisms in China

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This volume brings together articles by scholars and activists from China, Japan, Canada, and the US, exploring the challenges and opportunities of translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to China, a society with its unique concepts of gender, class, body, and sexuality. It highlights the critical role of gender in shaping modern China and illustrates how translated feminisms have redefined Chinese self-perceptions and historical narratives.
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Ideal for scholars, students, and readers interested in gender studies, Chinese history, feminism, and cultural translation.

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This volume, which brings together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, body and sexuality.

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Translating Feminisms in China is a volume that brings together articles by scholars and activists from China, Japan, Canada, and the US across multiple disciplines. It seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, body, and sexuality.

Key aspects of this volume include:

  • Showcases the centrality of gender in the formation of modern China.
  • Demonstrates the extent to which translated feminismsβ€”whatever they meanβ€”have transformed the terms in which modern Chinese understand their own subjectivities and histories.

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  • Translating Feminisms in China
    Translating Feminisms in China is a volume that brings together articles by scholars and activists from China, Japan, Canada, and the US across multiple disciplines. It seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, body, and sexuality. Key aspects of this volume...
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"One of the major strengths of the chapters dealing with the Socialist period lies in the authors' use of participant observation and extensive interviewing." (WOMEN: A CULTURAL REVIEW, December 2009) "The editors have selected contributions from a wide range of positions and disciplines to create a stimulating β€˜cacophony' of voices, analyses and interpretations." (Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Review, 2008)

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781405161701

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 October 2007

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Dorothy Ko
  • Edited by Wang Zheng

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 472g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Dorothy Ko, a native of Hong Kong, is Professor of Chinese History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of the recent monograph, Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (2005).

Wang Zheng is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Associate Research Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories (1999) and co-editor with Xueping Zhong and Bai Di of Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (2002).

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