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RWMCH
Vol. 20
ISSN：
1029-4759
Date：
2012-12
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276
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Abstract：
This issue contains four articles: ““Everydayness as a Critical Category of Gender Analysis: The Case of Funü shibao (The Women’s Eastern Times)””, by Joan Judge;” A Research on Xin Funü (the New Women) Published in the May 4th Period”, by Fei Yao;”Women’s Culture in the Shadow of the War: Women’s Journals in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1941”, by Ling-ling Lien;” Emma Goldman and the “Propaganda by the Deed” in Mother Earth: Its Transnational Networks and Discourses on Gender”, by Hui-chi Hsu; Speech:” Gender and Transnational consumer Culture”,by Judith Walkowitz; tree Scholar Notes: ” An Introduction to Chūgoku josei shi kenkyū (the Journal of Historical Studies on Chinese Women)”, by Mizuyo Sudo; “Overview of Funü yanjiu luncong (the Collection of Women’s Studies)”, by Feng Yuan; ”Nan Nü: The First Fifteen Years”, by Kar-kee Lo;two Book Reviews:” The Exposed/Hided Perspective: A Review for Zhongguo funü baokan shi yanjiu (the Study on the History of Chinese Women’s Journals)”, by Chu-ching Tsai; The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past”, by Chao-chao Lin.
Contents
Introduction
Articles
Everydayness as a Critical Category of Gender Analysis: The Case of Funü shibao (The Women’s Eastern Times)
[Abstract]
Joan Judge
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1
This essay analyzes the links between the valorization of the everyday and gender in early twentieth century China. While the quotidian had been a topic of discussion for centuries in Confucian family instruction manuals and encyclopedias for daily life, what was new in the late Qing and early Republic was the proliferation of print materials that disseminated everyday knowledge, the links that authors of these materials drew between new scientific learning and the quotidian, and the centrality of women as lynchpins between a newly scientized daily life and pressing questions of social evolution and national revitalization. The essay asserts that this link between women and new theorizations of the quotidian is critical to understanding the range of possibilities that opened up for women in this period, and that the everyday is a potentially more productive category of gender analysis than either nationalism or feminism.
The authors of the progressive “Everyday Agenda” were not the well known intellectuals writing for the flagship publications of the reform or New Culture movements. Much of the material on daily life that was published in Shanghai and avidly read by urban audiences dispersed throughout China, was produced by writers for the commercial rather than the intellectual or ideological periodical press. These writers’ impassioned quest to explore, expose, and elevate the everyday in the pages of fiction, women’s, and general interest magazines is arguably as important a source of historical change as the more widely trumpeted epic social vision of the reformist, May Fourth, and Communist movements.
The prime source for this essay is one of these publications, China’s first commercial women’s journal, Funü shibao 婦女時報 (The women’s eastern times, Shanghai 1911-1917). The journal’s stated objectives were directly in line with the “Epic Agenda” promoted by late-Qing reformers and May Fourth-era iconoclasts— to promote women’s learning in the service of the nation—and much of the journal’s content addresses this theme. The focus of this essay is, however, on the journal’s alternative and arguably more historically significant “Everyday Agenda,” which was articulated in its editorial column, discursive essays, essay contest themes, readers’ columns, diaries, and surveys. While the point of departure for the Epic Agenda was national weakness and the need to project new global ideals of citizenry downward, the sources of the Everyday Agenda were quotidian, local concerns that had to be elevated through new, scientific knowledge and new inductive methods of education.
This essay focuses on two of these prominent areas of concern, which both female and male contributors addressed: women’s reproductive health and household education. Whereas most scholars of these materials have posited a stark division of gendered labor, with male journalists critiquing a female realm of inadequacy or male theorists formulating social policy for women to execute, a close reading of Funü shibao challenges the ubiquity of this dynamic. In so doing, it underlines the importance of the everyday as a critical category of gender analysis.
Keyword
：everyday, gender, commercial periodical press, Funü shibao, Epic Agenda, Everyday Agenda, Qu Jun, Ye Shengtao, Yun Daiying, Wang Jieliang
A Research on Xin Funü (the New Women) Published in the May 4th Period
[Abstract]
Fei Yao
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Xin funü
, which was published during the May 4th period, used Western feminist theory to understand Chinese women’s lives. The editors discussed marriage, family, labor issues—all topics that were popular in the May 4th period—through essays, poetry, fiction, drama, and other textual forms, and advocated the creation of new women in order to improve Chinese society. In later volumes,
Xin funü
advocated Marxist theories of the emancipation of women, thus becoming the first women’s magazine in China to advocate a Marxits view of women.
After carefully analyzing
Xin funü
, I conclude that the magazine has three important characteristics. First, although the magazine can’t be compared with
Xin qingnian
in theory or
Funü zazhi
in actual effect, it attractged female student readers by explaining profound theories in simple language and fresh and friendly form. It thus became a notable New Culture movement periodical. Second, since it also possessed something of the temperament of a women’s school newsletter,
Xin funü
exemplified the real situation facing the women’s liberation movement in the May 4th period. Last but not least,
Xin funü
was a conscious response to the ideas of the New Culture movement that were expressed their strong desire to equal education with male students, self-determination in love affairs, freedom of social contact, and other radical ideas. This represented a real process of enlightenment. Even the appearance of Marxist theory was also a reflection on how the ideological trends of the New Culture movement influenced the changing discourse of
Xin funü
. From the viewpoint of communication history,
Xin funü
has unique research value.
Keyword
：Xin funü, New Women, May 4th enlightenment, gender discourse, Marxist theory of the emancipation of women
Women’s Culture in the Shadow of the War: Women’s Journals in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1941
[Abstract]
Ling-ling Lien
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This article examines women’s journals published in Shanghai between 1937 and 1941—the so-called “solitary island” period when the International Settlement and the French Concession were surrounded by the Japanese occupied area due to the breakout of the War of Resistance against Japan—to examine how women’s culture was constructed in the intensive wartime atmosphere. Influenced by feminist cultural theory, historians have begun to listen to women’s voices, particularly noting the formation of sentiments of sisterhood cemented through literary and artistic works, which have been interpreted as a claim of unique gender identity. While the prevailing “masculine” discourse of national salvation came to shape this women’s culture, its representations varied widely among different journals. This article analyzes three types of women’s images during the war: heroines, victims, and foreign others, to see in what ways educated women created their own culture and negotiated the boundaries between gender and national identities.
Keyword
：women’s journals, Shanghai, the war of resistance against Japan, heroines, sexual violence, transnational women’s culture.
Emma Goldman and the “Propaganda by the Deed” in Mother Earth: Its Transnational Networks and Discourses on Gender
[Abstract]
Hui-chi Hsu
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107
This article features the activist propaganda of Mother Earth, a monthly magazine published by the American anarchist leader Emma Goldman (1869-1940) from 1906 to- 1917. A product of collective teamwork by Goldman and her comrades and friends, Mother Earth showcased how “propaganda by the deed,” a feasible activist creed for the anarchist movement that started from in Europe in the 1870s, could be applied in the early 20thtwentieth-century United .States. I argue that the comprehensive project of Mother Earth is characterized by what I call “3-in-1 symbiotic mechanism;” i.e., the journal itself functioned interdependently with the annual lecturing tours of Goldman and the publications by Mother Earth Publishing Association. In order to highlight such characteristics, I focus on the transnational networks and gender activism of Mother Earth to explore how it was operated in an inclusive manner. By demonstrating the activist propaganda of Mother Earth, I also propose a reconsideration of journal studies regarding the appraisal of how a journal functioned. Based on this study, I suggest that we might need to extend beyond the journal itself (and its context) to evaluate how it operated during its period of publication.
Keyword
：Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, Propaganda by the Deed, Transnational Networks, Discourses on Gender
Speech
Gender and Transnational consumer Culture
Judith Walkowitz
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167
Scholar Notes
An Introduction to Chūgoku josei shi kenkyū (the Journal of Historical Studies on Chinese Women)
Mizuyo Sudo
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201
Overview of Funü yanjiu luncong (the Collection of Women’s Studies)
Feng Yuan
PDF
211
Nan Nü: The First Fifteen Years
Kar-kee Lo
PDF
229
Book Reviews
The Exposed/Hided Perspective: A Review for Zhongguo funü baokan shi yanjiu (the Study on the History of Chinese Women’s Journals)
Chu-ching Tsai
PDF
247
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
Chao-chao Lin
PDF
259
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