The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China

by Joan Judge

Book Overview

This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own past and the modern West through the lens of the woman question. Writers and activists who engaged in debates over this question variously appropriated biographies of women--a genre with a 2,000-year history in China and a new political salience in the early twentieth century. Judge maps the ways these individuals used historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804773262
• ISBN13: 9780804773263
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"