Chinese Feminist Movement

Xiang Jingyu connects marriage choice, education finance and collective childcare, asking what institutions make women's self-determination possible.

He-Yin Zhen asks who benefits when men grant women freedom, connecting domestic service, class and the limits of representation.

In this 1904 address, Qiu Jin links footbinding, marriage, education and women’s self-reliance to late-Qing politics, while exposing the tension between national renewal and women’s freedom.

This paper explores the multifaceted responses from the Chinese art world to Linda Nochlin's famous 1971 question 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?' The author analyzes how feminist art criticism has been translated and practiced in China, and drawing on the theory of 'feminism with Chinese characteristics' proposed by Zhu and Xiao, emphasizes the non-binary nature of gender politics within specific historical contexts.