Feminism in the vernacular : baihua writing, gender, and identity in late Qing China

• Main Author: Zhang, Yun
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History; Baihua Writing; Female Citizen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155337
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article explores the significant yet neglected role of women as active practitioners of baihua writing, a newly created vernacular journalistic style, in the context of nationalism in early twentieth-century China. While nationalist vernacular journalists of the time constructed baihua as a uti...