ISBN10: 1604976608, ISBN13: 9781604976601, [publisher: Cambria Press 2010-01-18] Hardcover Language: eng
[Oxford, OX, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]

Cambria Press 2010 Hard cover New in new dust jacket.

ISBN10: 1604976608, ISBN13: 9781604976601, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A most remarkable change took place in the first half of the twentieth century in China--women journalists became powerful professionals who championed feminist interests, discussed national politics, and commented on current social events by editing independent periodicals. The rise of modern journalism in China provided literate women with a powerful institution that allowed them articulate women's presence in the public space. In editing women's periodicals, women writers transformed themselves from traditional literary women (cainü) to professional women journalists (nübaoren) in the period of 1898-1937 when journalism became increasingly independent of and resistant to state control. The women's media writings in the early decades of the twentieth century not only reveal the historical diversity and complexity of feminist issues in China but also casts light upon important feminist topics that have survived the Nationalist, Communist, and economic reform eras. Today, public debate on women's issues in Mainland China and Taiwan is shaped by past feminist discourse and uses a vocabulary and language familiar to readers of an earlier era.This book examines how women journalists constructed Chinese feminism and debated patriarchy and women's roles in the newly created public space of print media ...
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Cambria Pr, Date: 2010. Hardcover. New. 470 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. 2010. Cambria Pr ISBN 1604976608 9781604976601 [GB]