The Birth of Chinese Feminism by He Zhen

Ahead of her time, He-Yin Zhen complicates conventional accounts of feminism and China’s history, offering original perspectives on sex, gender, labor, and power that remain relevant today. He-Yin presents an alternative conception that draws upon anarchism and other radical trends. Jin, a poet and educator, and Liang, a philosopher and journalist, understood feminism as a paternalistic cause that liberals like themselves should defend. They then present annotated translations of six of her major essays, as well as two foundational tracts by her male contemporaries, Jin Tianhe (1874-1947) and Liang Qichao (1873–1929), to which He-Yin’s work responds and with which it engages. Where lies the feminist potential of Chinese philosophy, given its patriarchal past and present And, is Chinese philosophy philosophy at all, given its. The editors begin with a detailed analysis of He-Yin Zhen’s life and thought. This volume, the first translation and study of He-Yin’s work in English, critically reconstructs early twentieth-century Chinese feminist thought in a transnational context by juxtaposing He-Yin Zhen’s writing against works by two better-known male interlocutors of her time. China that gave rise to the texts of He-Yin Zhen, Jin Tianhe (18741947), and. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China’s fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical problems. The birth of Chinese feminism : essential texts in transnational theory. 1884-ca.1920) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism.

The Birth of Chinese Feminism by He Zhen