Bound to emancipate working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong

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Bound to emancipate working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong

Title:

Bound to emancipate working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong

Author:

Chin, Angelina S.

Personal Author:

Chin, Angelina S.

Publication Information:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

Physical Description:

xiii, 279 p. : ill.

Series:

Asia/Pacific/perspectives

Asia/Pacific/perspectives.

Contents:

Notes on transliteration -- Introduction: geographies of emancipation -- British colonialism and regulating women in Hong Kong -- Emancipating women from social customs (Fengsu) in 1920s Guangzhou -- Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong Kong -- The Fenghua protection movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935 -- Social control through charity : the role of the Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk in the 1930s -- Testimonies from the Po Leung Kuk -- Women service workers and labor activism -- Conclusion: lower-class women, "emancipation," and urban citizenship -- Glossary -- Works cited -- Index -- About the author.

Subject Term:

Women -- China -- History -- 20th century.

Women -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.

Women employees -- China -- History -- 20th century.

Women employees -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.

Women's rights -- China -- History -- 20th century.

Women's rights -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.

Feminism -- China -- History -- 20th century.

Feminism -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

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