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

Zhang Yun, Ph.D. (2015), The University of Hong Kong, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has published articles and translations on women’s and gender history and Chinese literary and print culture.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Articulating the Woman Question: Women’s Literary Heritage, Education, and the Nation1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space in Nü xuebao2 Debates on the Cainü Legacy3 Asserting Intellectual Authority in the Public Space4 Ambivalence: a Debate of Linguistic Registers5 Conclusion2 Nationalism and Beyond: Nüjie and the Construction of a New Gendered Collective Identity1 The Cure for the Nation: Mobilizing Nüjie2 A Nüjie of Their Own3 Beyond Nationalism: Demanding a Revolution in Nüjie4 Conclusion3 The Manchu Woman Commits Suicide: Ethnicity and the Composition of the New Chinese Woman1 A Sacrificial Martyr for a National Cause2 Making a Manchu Heroine3 Ethnicity and Gender: Manchu Women’s Envisioning of Modern Womanhood4 Conclusion4 Fashioning Hygienic Womanhood: Women’s Health and Bodies in Commercial Women’s Journals1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space of the Commercial Women’s Journals: Male Editorial Agency and Female Authorial Subjectivity2 The Ideal of “Wise Mothers and Good Wives”3 Women and Weisheng in the Household4 Women’s Hygiene and Reproductive Health4.1 Menstruation4.2 Childbirth5 Conclusion5 Policing Girl Students1 Female Students in the Late Qing2 The Republican Girl Students3 Debates on Girl Students4 Personal Accounts from Girl Students5 ConclusionConclusionWorks CitedIndex