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

Judge, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804755892 ISBN 13: 9780804755894

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book develops a new approach to historical change at the turn of the twentieth century, a crucial stage in the unfolding of Chinese modernity. Its focus is on the fraught and momentous woman question, which foregrounded the cultural paradoxes and political aspirations that define the era. Judge probes Chinese approaches to their own past and the modern West (mediated via Japan) through a close examination of the varied cultural and political uses of female biography-a genre with a 2,000-year history in China and a new political salience in the early twentieth century.

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About the Author

Joan Judge is Associate Professor of Humanities and Women's Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Print and Politics: 'Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford, 1996) and of numerous articles on China at the turn of the twentieth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804755892
• ISBN 13: 9780804755894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416