Events
The Birth of Chinese Feminism: He-Yin Zhen’s Ontology of Labor and Twentieth-Century Anarcho-Feminism
17 Apr 2018
4:30PM – 6:00PM
Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library, CUHK
Prof. Rebecca Karl (New York University)
About speaker
Rebecca E. Karl is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China (2017); Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History (2010); and Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2002); she is co-translator (with Xueping Zhong) of Cai Xiang’s Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966 (2016), all published by Duke University Press. She co-translated and coedited (with Lydia H. Liu and Dorothy Ko) The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (Columbia UP, 2013).
Centre for Cultural Studies:
culturaltstudiescuhk@gmail.com
A public lecture by Prof. Rebecca Karl (New York University) entitled “The Birth of Chinese Feminism: He-Yin Zhen’s Ontology of Labor and Twentieth-Century Anarcho-Feminism” will be held on 17 April 2018. In this lecture, Prof. Karl will revisit the logic of He-Yin Zhen’s anarcho-feminism at the turn of the twentieth century in China.
This talk revisits the logic of He-Yin Zhen’s anarcho-feminism at the turn of the twentieth century in China. Grounded in her critique of labor and female embodiment, He-Yin’s account of the historical roots of social injustice and their ongoing economic, political and cultural reproduction in China and globally was very new for her time and continues to be relevant for ours.
