Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction - May Fourth and Women's Emancipation ix
• Notes xxii
• Editors' Preface xxvii
• Biographical Notes on the Authors xxxi
• Part One - Love, Marriage, and the Family 1
• Editor's Introduction 1
• 1 - The Way of Confucius and Modern Life 5
• 2 - My Views on Chastity 8
• 3 - Is This Also a Human Being? 18
• 4 - Emancipating Women by Reorganizing the Family 21
• 5 - How Can We Honor Women? 26
• 6 - A Refutation of Yang Xiaochun's "Against Public Childcare" 28
• 7 - Freedom of Marriage and Democracy 36
• 8 - Public Childcare and Public Dining Halls 40

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction - May Fourth and Women's Emancipation ix
• Notes xxii
• Editors' Preface xxvii
• Biographical Notes on the Authors xxxi
• Part One - Love, Marriage, and the Family 1
• Editor's Introduction 1
• 1 - The Way of Confucius and Modern Life 5
• 2 - My Views on Chastity 8
• 3 - Is This Also a Human Being? 18
• 4 - Emancipating Women by Reorganizing the Family 21
• 5 - How Can We Honor Women? 26
• 6 - A Refutation of Yang Xiaochun's "Against Public Childcare" 28
• 7 - Freedom of Marriage and Democracy 36
• 8 - Public Childcare and Public Dining Halls 40
• 9 - Love and Socializing Between Men and Women 44
• 10 - The Debate over "Love and Open Socializing Between Men and Women" 46
• 11 - My View on the Issue of Divorce 49
• 12 - The New Year's Sacrifice 51
• 13 - My Marriage 73
• Part Two - The New Women Martyrs 75
• Editors' Introduction 75
• 14 - The Question of Miss Zhao's Personality 79
• 15 80
• 16 - Commentary on Miss Zhao's Suicide 83
• 17 - The Evils of Society" and Miss Zhao 85
• 18 - The Biography of Li Chao 89
• 19 - Words Spoken at Miss Li Chao's Memorial Service 100
• 20 - The Incident of Miss Xi Shangzhen's Suicide at the Office of the Commercial Press 102
• 21 - In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen 110
• Part Three - Women's Education 117
• Editors' Introduction 117
• 22 - My Plan for Women's Emancipation and My Plan for Self-Improvement 121
• 23 - A Plan for Women's Development 125
• 24 - Report on Yanjing University's Ceremony to Celebrate the Beginning of Coeducation 130
• 25 - The Condition of Female Education in Jinan 135
• 26 - Thoughts on Women 141
• 27 - A Few Words of Encouragement 144
• Part Four - Women's Emancipation 147
• Editors' Introduction 147
• 28 - The Question of Women's Character 151
• 29 - The Woman Question in China: Emancipation from a Trap 158
• 30 - The Emancipation of Chinese Women 164
• 31 - The Great Inappropriateness of Women's Emancipation 168
• 32 - The Women's Improvement Society's Hopes for Women 171
• 33 - Women of the "Advanced Country" 173
• 34 - Women's Careers 174
• 35 - What Happens after Nora Leaves Home? 176
• Part Five - Women and Social Activism 183
• Editors' Introduction 183
• 36 - The Postwar Woman Question 187
• 37 - The Place of Chinese Christian Women in the Development of China 193
• 38 - Vanguard Women 197
• 39 - Women's Right to Vote 206
• 40 - How Do We Make the Women's Movement Truly Powerful? 208
• 41 - I Think 212
• 42 - The Woman Question and Socialism 213
• 43 - The Center of the Women's Rights Movement Should Move to the Fourth Class 217
• Works Cited 221
• Glossary 225
• Index 229