Keys to women's liberation in Communist China: An historical overview

Journal of International Women's Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-77

  Zhou, Jinghao ^a  

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Author keywords

Chinese feminism; Chinese Women; Women in Communist China

Indexed keywords

EID: 18644372635     PISSN: 15398706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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1. Author of the Book Remaking China's Public Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2003. I would like to thank Diana Fox and Jo Anna Isaak for reading and making corrections.
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9. I b i d.
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17. I b i d.
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19. Quoted in Lisa Rofel, "Liberation Nostalgia and a Yearning for Modernity," in Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State. ed. by Christina K. Gilmartin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 234.
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