Nicola Spakowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1372546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Spakowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Spakowski |
| SIGNATURE | SPAKOWSKI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8959-2695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Xi Jinping
As both general secretary of the Communist Party of China and his country’s head of state, Xi Jinping wields more power than any Chinese leader since Mao. Practices such as collective party leadership or term limits have been abandoned. Xi Jinping embodies authoritarian rule’s claim to power and China’s rise as a world power. State propaganda casts him as a “strong man” and fatherly leadership figure. His “manly action” and “Confucian” composure …
Frauen in China
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Spakowski, Nicola: Frauen in China: Konservative Wende der Frauenpolitik unter Xi Jinping, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 1-2022, S. 104-108. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v31i1.09 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 18.07.2025 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zu…
Women Labour Models and Socialist Transformation in early 1950s China
This article investigates Chinese women labour models (or labour heroines) of the early 1950s as actors and symbols of socialist transformation. It centres on the example of Shen Jilan (1929–2020), who was one of the most prominent women labour models of the time. Shen rose to fame through her struggle for equal pay for equal work in her native village, became a delegate to China's National People's Congress, and even participated in the Third Wo…
Moving Labor Heroes Center Stage
Labor heroes are an important phenomenon in the history of socialist China, but they have received only little attention in Western scholarship. This article investigates the labor heroes of the Yan'an period as the pivot in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) attempt at reconceptualizing society, establishing new social relations and creating a socialist subjectivity. It reveals the new symbolic order constructed in the official media, primarily…
Yan’an’s Labor Heroines and the Birth of the Women of New China
This article discusses the labor heroines of Yan’an and their cultural representation in the context of the early 1940s. It shows how the phenomenon of women’s labor heroism was formed during these years and it points out the rifts, contradictions and multiple understandings in the representation of labor heroines and their ideal role in the revolutionary process. In particular, this study highlights the co-existence of an instrumentalist and an …
Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940-1960, written by Xiaoping Cong, 2016
Dreaming a Future for China
The article examines Chinese leftist intellectuals’ visions of China’s future as they were published in a special issue of Dongfang zazhi (Eastern Miscellany) in 1933. It places their texts in the international tradition of socialism and in particular the tensions between Marxism and “utopian socialism.” Two variants of socialism can be identified in the Chinese texts: “Datong socialism,” the moral vision of a society of freedom and equality, and…
Socialist Feminism in Postsocialist China
Since around 2010, a new theoretical strand within Chinese feminism has been forming, which, for lack of a programmatic label, the author calls “socialist feminism.” Broadly speaking, Chinese socialist feminism shows an interest in political economy and attributes women’s status to their place in the economic structures of Chinese society. Productive and reproductive work (past and present) are therefore main fields of research. The distinctive t…
Asianisms
At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? the answer involves an investigation of the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It reconstructs regional constellations, intersections and relations in their national, transnational and global contexts. Moving far beyond the more well-known Japanese Pan-Asianism of the first half of the twentieth century, the chapters i…
Finding Women in the State
Daughter of Good Fortune
Soldatinnen
Ein wichtiges, innovatives Buch über das historisch noch kaum erforschte Phänomen der »women warriors« vom Mittelalter bis heute und im internationalen Vergleich: die direkte Beteiligung von Frauen an der Tötungsgewalt in regulären und irregulären Kampfverbänden. Die Mobilisierung und Selbstmobilisierung von Frauen, ihre Erwartungen an den Einsatz und ihre Erfahrungen im Krieg, die kurz- und langfristigen Folgen für die zivilen und militärischen …
Gender” Trouble
Over the past ten to fifteen years, feminism in China has been marked by three closely related characteristics. The first is the introduction of “Western” feminism with “gender” as the core of theory import. The second is the articulation of the “trouble” this import of Western theory has caused. Chinese feminist texts abound with terms such as trouble, difficulty, and clash, which are used to express worries about the consequences of this new or…
National aspirations on a global stage
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has witnessed a surge in world history research and a reorientation towards what is called a ‘global view on history’. This article will demonstrate, however, that the ‘global’ in these discussions is not regarded as the substance of the historical process but merely as the context for the development of the nation-state as the uncontested historical unit. This specific orientation is caused …
Gender” Trouble
Over the past ten to fifteen years, feminism in China has been marked by three closely related characteristics. The first is the introduction of “Western” feminism with “gender” as the core of theory import. The second is the articulation of the “trouble” this import of Western theory has caused. Chinese feminist texts abound with terms such as trouble, difficulty, and clash, which are used to express worries about the consequences of this new or…
Socialist Feminism in Postsocialist China
Since around 2010, a new theoretical strand within Chinese feminism has been forming, which, for lack of a programmatic label, the author calls “socialist feminism.” Broadly speaking, Chinese socialist feminism shows an interest in political economy and attributes women’s status to their place in the economic structures of Chinese society. Productive and reproductive work (past and present) are therefore main fields of research. The distinctive t…
Dreaming a Future for China
The article examines Chinese leftist intellectuals’ visions of China’s future as they were published in a special issue of Dongfang zazhi (Eastern Miscellany) in 1933. It places their texts in the international tradition of socialism and in particular the tensions between Marxism and “utopian socialism.” Two variants of socialism can be identified in the Chinese texts: “Datong socialism,” the moral vision of a society of freedom and equality, and…
Women Labour Models and Socialist Transformation in early 1950s China
This article investigates Chinese women labour models (or labour heroines) of the early 1950s as actors and symbols of socialist transformation. It centres on the example of Shen Jilan (1929–2020), who was one of the most prominent women labour models of the time. Shen rose to fame through her struggle for equal pay for equal work in her native village, became a delegate to China's National People's Congress, and even participated in the Third Wo…
National aspirations on a global stage
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has witnessed a surge in world history research and a reorientation towards what is called a ‘global view on history’. This article will demonstrate, however, that the ‘global’ in these discussions is not regarded as the substance of the historical process but merely as the context for the development of the nation-state as the uncontested historical unit. This specific orientation is caused …
National aspirations on a global stage
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has witnessed a surge in world history research and a reorientation towards what is called a ‘global view on history’. This article will demonstrate, however, that the ‘global’ in these discussions is not regarded as the substance of the historical process but merely as the context for the development of the nation-state as the uncontested historical unit. This specific orientation is caused …
Soldatinnen
Ein wichtiges, innovatives Buch über das historisch noch kaum erforschte Phänomen der »women warriors« vom Mittelalter bis heute und im internationalen Vergleich: die direkte Beteiligung von Frauen an der Tötungsgewalt in regulären und irregulären Kampfverbänden. Die Mobilisierung und Selbstmobilisierung von Frauen, ihre Erwartungen an den Einsatz und ihre Erfahrungen im Krieg, die kurz- und langfristigen Folgen für die zivilen und militärischen …
Gender” Trouble
Over the past ten to fifteen years, feminism in China has been marked by three closely related characteristics. The first is the introduction of “Western” feminism with “gender” as the core of theory import. The second is the articulation of the “trouble” this import of Western theory has caused. Chinese feminist texts abound with terms such as trouble, difficulty, and clash, which are used to express worries about the consequences of this new or…
Daughter of Good Fortune
Asianisms
At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? the answer involves an investigation of the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It reconstructs regional constellations, intersections and relations in their national, transnational and global contexts. Moving far beyond the more well-known Japanese Pan-Asianism of the first half of the twentieth century, the chapters i…
Finding Women in the State
Socialist Feminism in Postsocialist China
Since around 2010, a new theoretical strand within Chinese feminism has been forming, which, for lack of a programmatic label, the author calls “socialist feminism.” Broadly speaking, Chinese socialist feminism shows an interest in political economy and attributes women’s status to their place in the economic structures of Chinese society. Productive and reproductive work (past and present) are therefore main fields of research. The distinctive t…
Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940-1960, written by Xiaoping Cong, 2016
Dreaming a Future for China
The article examines Chinese leftist intellectuals’ visions of China’s future as they were published in a special issue of Dongfang zazhi (Eastern Miscellany) in 1933. It places their texts in the international tradition of socialism and in particular the tensions between Marxism and “utopian socialism.” Two variants of socialism can be identified in the Chinese texts: “Datong socialism,” the moral vision of a society of freedom and equality, and…
Yan’an’s Labor Heroines and the Birth of the Women of New China
This article discusses the labor heroines of Yan’an and their cultural representation in the context of the early 1940s. It shows how the phenomenon of women’s labor heroism was formed during these years and it points out the rifts, contradictions and multiple understandings in the representation of labor heroines and their ideal role in the revolutionary process. In particular, this study highlights the co-existence of an instrumentalist and an …
Moving Labor Heroes Center Stage
Labor heroes are an important phenomenon in the history of socialist China, but they have received only little attention in Western scholarship. This article investigates the labor heroes of the Yan'an period as the pivot in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) attempt at reconceptualizing society, establishing new social relations and creating a socialist subjectivity. It reveals the new symbolic order constructed in the official media, primarily…
Frauen in China
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Spakowski, Nicola: Frauen in China: Konservative Wende der Frauenpolitik unter Xi Jinping, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 1-2022, S. 104-108. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v31i1.09 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 18.07.2025 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zu…
Women Labour Models and Socialist Transformation in early 1950s China
This article investigates Chinese women labour models (or labour heroines) of the early 1950s as actors and symbols of socialist transformation. It centres on the example of Shen Jilan (1929–2020), who was one of the most prominent women labour models of the time. Shen rose to fame through her struggle for equal pay for equal work in her native village, became a delegate to China's National People's Congress, and even participated in the Third Wo…
Xi Jinping
As both general secretary of the Communist Party of China and his country’s head of state, Xi Jinping wields more power than any Chinese leader since Mao. Practices such as collective party leadership or term limits have been abandoned. Xi Jinping embodies authoritarian rule’s claim to power and China’s rise as a world power. State propaganda casts him as a “strong man” and fatherly leadership figure. His “manly action” and “Confucian” composure …
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · China (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works)