Chinese Women in Revolution

I. Pre-revolutionary/early revolutionary women

A. The Taipings, 1850-1867

the younger brother of Christ

land reform

economic equality

gender equality

the fighting women of Guangdong

Hakka women

vegetarian halls

Muslim women

celibacy and equality

Taiping harems

international equality

prohibition of alcohol, tobacco and opium

Pruitt, Daughter of Han

B. The Boxers, 1900

anti-missionary, anti-western, anti-Manchu

siege of the legations

Shamanic women and the Boxers

Ci Xi and the Boxers

women and dynastic collapse

harem life, politics and information

the Chinese Navy and the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895

Ci Xi and the Self-Strengthening Movement, 1861-1895

Ci Xi and the Hundred Days Reform, 1898

Ci Xi and the West

public relations: personal and the press

Edmund Backhouse and the London Times

Bland and Backhouse, China Under the Dowager Empress

Buck, Imperial Woman

Seagrave, Dragon Lady

II. Nationalist women

A. Impact of Ci Xi's reforms

new family structures

women's education

[mission schools]

B. The 1911 Revolution

Sun Yatsen and the Revolutionary Alliance

Qui Jin, 1875-1907

education as a given

marriage, 1896

Beijing, 1900

Tokyo, 1904

Mulan as role model

Shanghai, 1906

revolution v. women's rights

the Triad connection

attempt at revolution, 1907

execution

Imperialism, Confucianism, nationalism and the Chinese male

C. May 4 Movement, 1919

Yuan Shikai and the 21 Demands

Versailles and Woodrow Wilson

the political revolution

anti-Japanese boycott

Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party

Mao Zedong and the Communist Party

Mao as a feminist

the Northern Expedition, 1926-1928

the intellectual revolution

Ding Ling and women's writing

Jiang Qing and the Shanghai movie industry

Hsieh, Ping-ying, Autobiography of a Chinese Girl

the Shanghai capitalists

the Soong sisters

Wesleyan University

Qingling: Sun Yatsen

Ailing: Wellington Koo

Mayling: Chiang Kai-shek

Confucianism and the gospel of gentility

III. Women in the Chinese Civil War, 1927-1949

A. end of the United Front

the Shanghai Massacre, 1927

death of Yang Kaihui, 1930

B. the Jiangxi Soviet

Russian orthodoxy

Mao and Zhu De

C. the Long March, 1934

Mao and Jiang Qing

D. Yanan, 1934-1945

revolutionary living

no husbands, no wives, only lovers

Jiang Qing, Zhu De and Agnes Smedley

Jiang Qing, the arts and propaganda

revolutionary tactics and how to treat women

E. The War with Japan

1936, the Xian Pact

the two-front war

Pearl Harbor, 1941

Japan surrenders, 1945

F. The Civil War, Round 2

failure of the two China policy

not exactly a Cold War

the turning point, 1947

Taiwan and the other China

Liberation, 1949