In a piece I did for the Huffington Post on women and the Olympics, I provided a brief overview of the history of ideas about feminine beauty in China and their links to concepts of modernity. This post supplements it by looking at the shift in representations of women from celebrating iron girls to extolling Oriental beauties over the course of the still relatively short history of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). During the three decades that followed the 1949 founding of the PRC, one goal promoted in official discourse was that of erasing gender differences and promoting gender sameness. This was linked to achieving a broader agenda: the elimination of class and socioeconomic differences. The underlying assumption was that women and...
This article examines the creation and use of gendered archetypes by the Provisional Government of t...
This thesis explores the evolution of the concept of traditional Chinese femininity in relation to w...
Since the beginning of China\u27s open-door policy in 1978, there have been tremendous changes insid...
Using data collected from Shanghai from 2002 to 2005, this paper focuses on the gender performance o...
This article is an inquiry of why such significance has been assigned to sports in general and the O...
In the Republican era (1911-1937), it was a period of time where rapid changes swept across China. C...
The proper role of Chinese women in society has changed dramatically throughout the course of histor...
Cette recherche porte sur une analyse historique au sujet des cosmétiques et de la beauté en Chine d...
The mid twentieth century was a tumultuous and transformative period in the history of China. Mao Ze...
Also CSST Working Paper #126.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51317/1/553.pd
Almost half a century has passed since Anglophone feminist scholars began to write about women in Ch...
Since the implementation of reforms in China after the Cultural Revolution, China has turned into gl...
This paper explores the ways in which the Chinese women's suffrage movement used racializing narrati...
One particularly neglected facet of the generally neglected 1898 Reform Movement in China is the rol...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Ever since the Chinese Commun...
This article examines the creation and use of gendered archetypes by the Provisional Government of t...
This thesis explores the evolution of the concept of traditional Chinese femininity in relation to w...
Since the beginning of China\u27s open-door policy in 1978, there have been tremendous changes insid...
Using data collected from Shanghai from 2002 to 2005, this paper focuses on the gender performance o...
This article is an inquiry of why such significance has been assigned to sports in general and the O...
In the Republican era (1911-1937), it was a period of time where rapid changes swept across China. C...
The proper role of Chinese women in society has changed dramatically throughout the course of histor...
Cette recherche porte sur une analyse historique au sujet des cosmétiques et de la beauté en Chine d...
The mid twentieth century was a tumultuous and transformative period in the history of China. Mao Ze...
Also CSST Working Paper #126.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51317/1/553.pd
Almost half a century has passed since Anglophone feminist scholars began to write about women in Ch...
Since the implementation of reforms in China after the Cultural Revolution, China has turned into gl...
This paper explores the ways in which the Chinese women's suffrage movement used racializing narrati...
One particularly neglected facet of the generally neglected 1898 Reform Movement in China is the rol...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Ever since the Chinese Commun...
This article examines the creation and use of gendered archetypes by the Provisional Government of t...
This thesis explores the evolution of the concept of traditional Chinese femininity in relation to w...
Since the beginning of China\u27s open-door policy in 1978, there have been tremendous changes insid...