Title: The Birth of Chinese Feminism: He-Yin Zhen’s Ontology of Labor and Twentieth-Century Anarcho-Feminism
Lecturer: Rebecca E. Karl (Professor of History, New York University)
Chairperson: LU Xinyu (Professor of Department of Communication, East China Normal University)
Date: 1 pm, June 1st, 2018 (Friday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
This talk revisits the logic of He-Yin Zhen’s (1886-1920?) anarchy-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. The talk is based in and is an extension of the collective work of Rebecca Karl, Lydia Liu, and Dorothy Ko, published in 2013 by Columbia University Press.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Rebecca E. Karl, a professor of history at the New York University, she has studied at Barnard College in New York (now Barnard College, Columbia University), New York University, Duke University, and received a doctor's degree in history from Duke University in 1995. In 1990, she studied Chinese at Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center. She has published some books, such asStaging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World: A Concise History;The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (co-editor and co-translator with Lydia Liu and Dorothy Ko).