Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement /

• Main Author: He, Qiliang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
• Subjects: Oriental literature.; Culture.; Gender.; Ethnology-Asia.; Motion pictures-Asia.; Asian Literature.; Culture and Gender.; Asian Culture.; Asian Cinema and TV.

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories a...

Table of Contents:

• 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.