Women in the Chinese Enlightenment

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内容简介:

Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party’s master narrative of Chinese women’s liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social change cross-culturally.

In this multilayered book, the first-person narratives are complemented by a history of the discursive process and the author’s sophisticated intertextual readings. Together, the parts form a fascinating historical portrait of how educated Chinese men and women actively deployed and appropriated ideologies from the West in their pursuit of national salvation and self-emancipation. As Wang demonstrates, feminism was embraced by men as instrumental to China’s modernity and by women as pointing to a new way of life.

作者简介:

Wang Zheng is an Affiliated Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Wang’s work in English includes the coediting of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society by Fei Xiaotong (California, 1992).

原文摘录:

His attack on the gender system in China allowed him to express his alienation from the ancient culture. His embrace of Nora revealed not only his frustration with the Chinese hierarchical and patriarchal family, but also-at a more profound level-his resentment of the burdens and constraints he experienced in a social structure based on networks of hierarchical and differential human relationships and their associated responsibilities and obligations (namely, Confucian ethics). He himself dreamed of being an independent person with individual freedom. Moreover; his fundamental crisis was generated by a painful realization of his peripheral and subaltern position in China’s semicolonization by the West. The comforting, centuries-old sense of superiority enjoyed by Chinese male literati was … (查看原文)

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2016-01-30 01:35:35

—— 引自第59页

十九世纪和二十世纪初的世界局势向新文化主义者传递了一个信息:人文主义,或者用周作人的话来说即“人的发现”,应当包括妇女。欧洲是先“人的发现”,过了两个世纪才有“女性的发现”。新文化运动时期,中国是两个发现并提,更难。

⭐⭐ 真正的新女性——超越那些在男性文学表述中作为一种修辞而出现的新女性——的主体建构。***

男性创作的非文学文本仅仅是一种不同的表述方式而已。对于儒家文化中妇女受压迫的批判以及对于妇女解放的鼓吹,都突出了“近代知识分子拼命地想要”借性别问题来“表述自己”这一点。他攻击中国的性别体系,表达了对旧文化的疏离。他拥护娜拉,不仅显示出他对中国的等级制和父权制家庭感到失落,而且在更深刻的层面上显示出他对于所在的社会体系中体验到的负担与束缚感到愤恨,这种社会体系是基于有等级、有区别的人际关系以及它们之间相互关联的责任与义务(即儒家道德)而成的网络。他梦想自己成为一个拥有个体自由的独立的人。
此外,他根本的危机还是源于他痛苦地意识到在被西方半殖民化的中国,他处于边缘和从属的地位。中国男性文人几个世纪以来所享有的令人鼓舞的优越感被强大而“优越的”西方大大地破坏了。近代知识分子***首当其冲地界定了妇女这个“受压迫的”、“低下的”社会群体,以此重新肯定了他们自身的优越性。简而言之,他们大声疾呼妇女解放也就是在表述或者说表达他们自身有意无意的渴望、冲突与危机。 (查看原文)

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