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In late Qing and early Republican China, new opportunities emerged for Chinese women. Xia Shi unearths the history of how married nonprofessional women without modern educations moved out of their sequestered domestic life, engaged in charitable, philanthropic, and religious activities, and repositioned themselves as public actors.
Xia Shi (P.h.D. University of California, Irvine) is an Assistant Professor of History and holds the Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies at the New College of Florida. She has contributed to China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, ed. Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Rowman & Littlefeld, 2009) and published articles in Frontiers of History in China and The China Beat Blog.Xia Shi is assistant professor of history and Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies at New College of Florida.
Peter Carroll, Northwestern University:Whether singing and dancing by female government students while selling handicrafts to support flood relief in late Qing Beijing or moving exhortations by Zhu Qihui (a.k.a. Mme Xiong Xiling) that extracted large sums of money from warlords and skeptical literati for the Mass Education Movement, philanthropic work by Chinese women in early twentieth-century China captured the public imagination, challenged gender ideals, and delivered charity to those in need. Xia Shi demonstrates in compelling detail that female philanthropists embraced contemporary social needs to expand their moral purview and the realm of their licit social space beyond the personal and family to encompass the nation and society as a whole. In so doing, they expanded notions of citizenship and its obligations for women and men alike.
Thomas Mullaney, Stanford University:While there are many formidable works of history focused upon iconoclastic and progressively educated 'new women,' there are far fewer that address the political and progressive lives of so-called 'home' women such as those featured in Xia Shi's work. By situating individual figures within their broader social and familial contexts, and in shifting contexts of work and leisure, Shi masterfully reveals the complex economic, social, and political webs that defined these women's progressive activities.
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