WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA
The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
Edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko (2013)
“This magnificent volume opens up a past and conjures a future. Anarcho-feminist He-Yin Zhen published her passionate and closely reasoned essays more than a century ago, yet the issues she raises have yet to be addressed adequately in China or anywhere else. The Birth of Chinese Feminism offers us the best of her writing and that of her feminist male contemporaries, with whom she did not always agree. The editors and translators have restored to visibility a world crackling with debate about equality, hierarchy, property, and justice. They challenge us to keep one appreciative eye on history and another on the conundrum of our own moment.”
–Gail Hershatter, author of The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
