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In this article, gender roles in China have been examined by taking historical transitions of Chinese society into account. It focused on three historical periods of contemporary China: (1) the pre-liberation period (prior to 1949), (2) the socialism construction period (between 1949 and 1978), and (3) the economic reform period (after 1978).
She reviews the larger context of the Chinese state’s shifting categorizations of minority peoples, from the scientific pluralism and large-scale documentation 427 of the early Mao years, through the suppression of ethnic identity during the Cultural Revolution, to the intensive commodification of minority “culture” from the 1980s onward.
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social importance in China, through the ripening of a substantial feminist discourse and body of literature both committed to putting the figure of “woman” at the center of modernization, revolution, and reform. We will read essays by Chinese feminists, short stories, novellas and novels
Mr. Big, one of the short stories written by Jiang Zilong, portrays an old and stubborn Tianjin calligrapher Mr. Big, who feels free and confident and has his own way to make himself the center of good Feng Shui in the nineteen eighties. From Mr. Big, readers can have a glimpse of a common old craftsman’s life in Tianjin, China in the ...
These introductory words of Rita Felski's The Gender of Modernity could just as easily apply to the complexities of China's twentieth-century articulations of the modern as to the European texts of Felski's study. From the outset, they broadly suggest that both concepts - the modern and gender - have acquired meaning through reference to each ...
- Harriet Evans
- 2008
Since the 1980s a number of important works on the position of women in Chinese society have been published. However, despite the attested interest in gender in China, there is an important lacuna in this work— masculinity. In effect, ‘gender’ has become synonymous with ‘woman’ because of the failure to focus on masculinity.
China’s recent history, from medicine to the theater to the gay bar and from law to art and sports. More broadly, the book shows how changes in attitudes toward sex and gender in China during the twentieth cen-tury have cast a new light on the process of becoming modern, while simultaneously challenging the universalizing assumptions of Western
