Bringing together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, this work seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, the body and sexuality.

This volume, which brings together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, it seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan 'West' to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, the body and sexuality. Furthermore, these articles showcase the centrality of gender in the formation of modern China by demonstrating the extent to which translated feminisms - whatever they mean - have transformed the terms in which modern Chinese understand their own subjectivities and histories. This book is essential reading for students, academics and general readers interested in East Asia, comparative women's history, feminist texts and the politics of translation.

Introduction: Translating Feminisms in China: WANG Zheng and Dorothy KO
1. Concepts of Women's Rights in Modern China: Mizuyo SUDO
2. Translating the New Woman: Chinese Feminists View the West, 1905-1915: Carol C. CHIN
3. Womanhood, Motherhood and Biology: The Early Phases of The Ladies' Journal, 1915-1925: Yung-chen CHIANG
4. The Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on 'Jianmei' (Robust Beauty) during China's 'National Crisis' in the 1930s: Yunxiang GAO
5. Making a Great Leap Forward? The Politics of Women's Liberation in Maoist China: Kimberley Ens MANNING
6. 'The Silver Flower Contest': Rural Women in the 1950s and the Gendered Division of Labour: GAO Xiaoxian
7. Rethinking the 'Iron Girls': Gender and Labour during the Chinese Cultural Revolution: JIN Yihong
8. Who Is a Feminist? Understanding the Ambivalence towards Shanghai Baby, 'Body Writing' and Feminism in Post-Women's Liberation China: Xueping ZHONG