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- Title
Suffragettes and Shrews: Unruly British Women in the Early Chinese Press (1900s–1910s).
- Authors
Yang, Shu
- Abstract
This article examines the image of the British suffragettes in the early Chinese press up to the 1910s. By widely surveying newspapers and magazines, it shows that the common adoption of the shrew trope in depicting the suffragettes went beyond a reductive translational interaction between the West and the East. People's Stand, The Eastern Miscellany and other periodical publications present different ways in which diction, images, literary legacy, gender tradition and cultural demands all came into play in reconfiguring the Chinese shrew and her connections to the Western suffragettes. The shrew–suffragette linkage debunks notions of selling strategies and editorial ambivalence underlying the gesture of the press. Yet it was precisely this ambiguity that rendered the shrew image so polysemic and fruitful, eventually allowing this traditional character type to be positively associated with the new woman models in Chinese progressive discourses.
- Subjects
WOMEN in the press; SUFFRAGISTS; SCOLDS; BRITISH people; CHINESE periodicals; CHINESE newspapers
- Publication
Gender & History, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 2, p582
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12586