Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China

Draws from comprehensive archival material

Contributes to scholarship on social reform movements in 1920s and 1930s China

Establishes the connected impact of journalism, literature, and the law on sociocultural discourse

Draws from comprehensive archival material Contributes to scholarship on social reform movements in 1920s and 1930s China Establishes the connected impact of journalism, literature, and the law on sociocultural discourse

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Qiliang He is Associate Professor in History at Illinois State University, USA. He is the author of Gilded Voices: Economics, Politics, and Storytelling in the Yangzi Delta Since 1949 (2012) and numerous articles on cultural history in twentieth-century China. He has also translated three books on Chinese history.

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Chapter 0: Introduction.- Chapter 1: In Search of Women's Agency in Everyday Life: The Construction of the Huang-Lu Love Affair in the Press.- Chapter 2: The Trials of Lu Genrong: The Criminal Law Reform and Women's Agency in Late 1920s China.- Chapter 3: Polysemy: Discussions and Debates on the Huang-Lu Love Affair.- Chapter 4: Polyphony: Vernacularized Feminisms and the Urban Network of Communication.- Chapter 5: Vernacularization as Global and Local Experiences: The Huang-Lu Affair in Film and Literature.- Chapter 6: Conclusion. <p