POLITICS POETICS AND GENDER IN LATE QING CHINA XUE SHAOHUI AND THE ERA OF REFORM (HB 2015)

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ISBN 10: 0804792402 / ISBN 13: 9780804792400

Published by SP Stanford UP, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: POLITICS POETICS AND GENDER IN LATE QING CHINA XUE SHAOHUI AND THE ERA OF REFORM (HB 2015)
• Publisher: SP Stanford UP
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804792402
• ISBN 13: 9780804792400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War. The "Hundred Day's Reform" has received a great deal of attention from historians who have focused on the well-known male historical actors, but until now the Qing women reformers have received almost no consideration. In this book, historian Nanxiu Qian reveals the contributions of the active, optimistic, and self-sufficient women reformers of the late Qing Dynasty. Qian examines the late Qing reforms from the perspective of Xue Shaohui, a leading woman writer who openly argued against male reformers' approach that subordinated women's issues to larger national concerns, instead prioritizing women's self-improvement over national empowerment. Drawing upon intellectual and spiritual resources from the freewheeling, xianyuan (worthy ladies) model of the Wei-Jin period of Chinese history (220–420) and the culture of women writers of late imperial China, and open to Western ideas and knowledge, Xue and the reform-minded members of her social and intellectual networks went beyond the inherited Confucian pattern in their quest for an ideal womanhood and an ideal social order. Demanding equal political and educational rights with men, women reformers challenged leading male reformers' purpose of achieving national "wealth and power," intending instead to unite women of all nations in an effort to create a just and harmonious new world.

About the Author

Nanxiu Qian is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Rice University.