Bound to Emancipate
Douban
Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-century China and Hong Kong
Angelina Chin
Sinossi
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contenuti
-- Introduction: geographies of emancipation
-- British colonialism and regulating women in Hong Kong
-- Emancipating women from social customs (Fengsu) in 1920s Guangzhou
-- Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong Kong
-- The Fenghua protection movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935
-- Social control through charity : the role of the Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk in the 1930s
-- Testimonies from the Po Leung Kuk
-- Women service workers and labor activism
-- Conclusion: lower-class women, "emancipation," and urban citizenship