{"product_id":"birth-of-chinese-feminism-the-writings-of-kang-hang-9780231162913","title":"Birth of Chinese Feminism: The Writings of Kang Hang","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. 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. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe editors begin with a detailed analysis of He-Yin Zhen's life and thought. 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. Jin, a poet and educator, and Liang, a philosopher and journalist, understood feminism as a paternalistic cause that liberals like themselves should defend. He-Yin presents an alternative conception that draws upon anarchism and other radical trends. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLydia H. Liu is Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and codirector of the Center for Translingual and Transcultural Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making\u003c\/i\u003e and, more recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebecca E. Karl is associate professor of history at New York University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStaging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy Ko, a native of Hong Kong, is professor of history at Barnard College. She is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWomen and Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eTeachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460065071378,"sku":"9780231162913","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31b28294-710a-4288-b726-c01f94b42eb8.jpg?v=1730025039","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/birth-of-chinese-feminism-the-writings-of-kang-hang-9780231162913","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}