Abstract
The concluding chapter wraps up the whole book with discussions of vernacular feminisms, the urban network of communication, and conservatisms. It puts emphasis on women’s agency by citing not only Huang Huiru, but also several other women involved in the Huang–Lu elopement. As female students, Nationalist Party cadres, professionals, or writers, they were the new breed of Chinese women with their self-activating agency.
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Joan Judge, “Blended Wish Images: Chinese and Western Exemplary Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Nan Nü—Men, Women & Gender in Early & Imperial China, Vol. 6 Issue 1 (March 2004): 132.
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Bailey, “‘Women Behaving Badly’,” 157.
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Joan Judge, “Meng Mu Meets the Modern: Female Exemplars in Early-Twentieth-Century Textbooks for Girls and Women,” Jindai Zhongguo funü shi yanjiu/Research on Women in Modern Chinese History, 8 (June 2000): 175.
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Hansen, “Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons,” 19.
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“Huang Huiru laicheng daichan san.”
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Christina K. Gilmartin, “Gender, Political Culture, and Women’s Mobilization in the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, 1924–1927,” in Engendering China: Women Culture, and the State, eds., Christiana K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), 224–5.
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Wang-Ju Fuzhen, “Guanyu Huang Lu lian’ai de liangfeng xin.”
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“Funü xiehui tongguo dapi huiyuan” (The women’s association absorbed a large number of members), Suzhou mingbao, March 15, 1929.
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“Huang Huiru laicheng daichan wu.”
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“Lu Genrong de tongzhi!”
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Lee, Revolution of the Heart, 15.
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Dikötter, Imperfect Conceptions, 2.
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Fitzgerald, Awakening China, 196–7.
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Ibid., 20.
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Wang, Qikan, chuban yu shehui wenhua bianqian, 117.
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He, Q. (2018). Conclusion. In: Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China. Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89692-2_7
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