The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism [Hardcover]

In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait. It problematizes recent scholarly understanding of feminist complexity in various Chinese-speaking areas. This book addresses sociocultural backgrounds of how Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong feminist scholars strategize their transfers, localization, and acculturation of Western feminist literary theories. It emphasizes how Chinese literary theorists filter, gate-keep, select, import latest Western feminist theories, and then match them with local socio-cultural trends by exerting comparative researchers' cross-cultural and cross-lingual academic power in order to tackle Mainland China's, Taiwan's, and Hong Kong's own gender problems.This Chinese Feminism Which Is Not 'One' More Than Three Waves of Feminism Taiwanese Academy's Reception of Feminist Scholars and Academic Feminism: Interviews about the 1990s The Academy's Reception of Feminist Scholars and Academic Feminism in the PRC: Interviews about the 1990s French Feminist Theories in Zhongwai wenxue of the 1990s French Feminist Theories in Wenyi lilun of the 1990s Feminist Orientalism and Occidentalism: Feminist Theoretical Round-Trips, Feedback Loops and 'Not-one-ness'

Illuminating. - Hypatia

A welcome addition to the fields of Chinese history, gender and cultural studies. Anyone interested in these areas should have a copy. - Journal of Asian Studies

An important and distinct contribution to the understanding of feminism and, in particular, feminist scholarship in China. - The China Quarterly

Seeking a theoretical 'round-trip' between Chinese and western feminism, Chen's fascinating new book is based on fifty interviews with feminist scholars, detailed historical and textual research, and investigation into local journals andl£Á