Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
By Angelina Chin.
Description
Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century China society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands the definition of women’s emancipation by examining what this rhetoric meant to lower-class women, especially those who were engaged in stigmatized sexualized labor who were treated by urban elites as uncivilized, rural, threatening, and immoral. Beginning in the early twentieth century, as a result of growing employment opportunities in the urban areas and the decline of rural industries, large numbers of young single lower-class women from rural ...
ISBN(s)
1442215593, 9781442215597
