Bound to Emancipate

Download or read book Bound to Emancipate written by Angelina S. Chin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century Chinese society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands and reinterprets the meaning of women's emancipation by examining what this rhetoric meant to lower-class women. Challenging the nation-based framework of history by focusing on two cities, Chin compares colonial Hong Kong with Guangzhou, which allows her to seamlessly integrate colonial studies and China studies.