Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century

A Space of their Own?

Michel Hockx, Joan Judge, Barbara Mittler

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781108419758
• eBook ISBN: 9781108331098
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

In this major new collection, an international team of scholars examine the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press and global modernity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays in this richly illustrated volume probe the ramifications for women of two monumental developments in this period: the intensification of China's encounters with foreign powers and a media transformation comparable in its impact to the current internet age. The book offers a distinctive methodology for studying the periodical press, which is supported by the development of a bilingual database of early Chinese periodicals. Throughout the study, essays on China are punctuated by transdisciplinary reflections from scholars working on periodicals outside of the Chinese context, encouraging readers to rethink common stereotypes about lived womanhood in modern China, and to reconsider the nature of Chinese modernity in a global context.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Sources
• Preface: The Role of Gender in Defining the “Women’s Magazine”
• Introduction: Women's Journals as Multigeneric Artefacts
• Part I Methodologies: Framing, Constituting, and Regulating the Space of the Women's Journal
• Part II A Space of Their Own: The Woman’s Journal, Generic Choice and the Making of Female Public Expression
• Part III Gendered Space and Global Context: Foreign Models, Circulating Concepts, and the Constitution of Female Subjectivities
• Conclusion: A Space of Their Own? Concluding Reflections
• Appendix: Journal Data
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index