Bound to emancipate : working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chin, Angelina S.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
Series:	Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Subjects:	Women > China > History > 20th century. Women > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century. Women employees > China > History > 20th century. Women employees > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century. Women's rights > China > History > 20th century. Women's rights > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century. Feminism > China > History > 20th century. Feminism > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Notes on transliteration
Introduction: geographies of emancipation
British colonialism and regulating women in Hong Kong
Emancipating women from social customs (Fengsu) in 1920s Guangzhou
Nüling and Nü Zhaodai in 1920s and 1930s Guangzhou and Hong Kong
The Fenghua protection movement in Guangzhou, 1929-1935
Social control through charity : the role of the Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk in the 1930s
Testimonies from the Po Leung Kuk
Women service workers and labor activism
Conclusion: lower-class women, "emancipation," and urban citizenship
Glossary
Works cited
Index
About the author.