Engendering the Woman Question: Men, Women, and Writing in China’s Early Periodical Press

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Engendering the Woman Question: Men, Women, and Writing in China’s Early Periodical Press is written by Yun Zhang and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004438548 (ISBN 10) and 9789004438545 (ISBN 13).

In Engendering the Woman Question, Zhang Yun adopts a new approach to examining the early Chinese women’s periodical press. Rather than seeing this new print and publishing genre as a gendered site coded as either “feminine” or “masculine,” this book approaches it as a mixed-gender public space where both men and women were intellectually active and involved in dynamic interactions to determine the contours of their discursive encounters. Drawing upon a variety of novel textual modes such as polemical essays, historical biography, public speech, and expository essays, this book opens a window onto men’s and women’s gender-specific approaches to a series of prominent topics central to the Chinese woman question in the early twentieth century.