Bound to emancipate [electronic resource] : working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong / Angelina Chin.
Chin, Angelina S.
2012
HQ1767 .C44785 2012
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Title Bound to emancipate [electronic resource] : working women and urban citizenship in early twentieth-century China and Hong Kong / Angelina Chin.
Author Chin, Angelina S.
ISBN 9781442215597
9781442215603
9781442215610 (electronic book)
Imprint Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
Language English
Description xiii, 279 p. : ill.
Call Number HQ1767 .C44785 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.4095109/04
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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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.

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