"A "Revolution in Ink
Sui Sin Far and Chinese Reform Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2983609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Chapman (0000-0001-8359-9423, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 975-1001 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aq.0.0053 |
| OpenAlex | W2005949571 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
This essay takes Asian-American writer Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton) as a case study of how non-white, non-middle-class women reacted to the exclusiveness of the suffragist campaign. Against a backdrop of nativist, racist suffragism, it rereads Sui Sin Far's fiction and essays not as "anti-progressive" and "anti-suffragist", as recent scholars have claimed, but as a reaction to the exclusiveness of white suffragists who routinely invoked the trope of the bound feet of Chinese women as a figure for their own oppression while ignoring Chinese-Americans' claims to the franchise. This essay documents the ways in which Sui Sin Far's works were inspired by transnational as well as American models of modernization, particularly the Chinese reform movement which led to the temporary enfranchisement of women in Guandong Province eight years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in the US. Learning from both Chinese reformer journalists who advocated "a revolution in ink" and nativist suffragists' own critical quotational strategies, Sui Sin Far's fiction fashions a resistant minority female voice through aggressive literary/ stenographic transcription
Media studies · Middle class · Modernization theory · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Ratification · Sociology · White (mutation · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Women in Chinese society
Sensational designs
Unbound Feet
Sentimentalism and Sui Sin Far
Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity
Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and Intellectual Transition in China, 1890-1907
Shanghai and the Edges of Empires
Typewriters and the Vote
Connecting Links
Feminism and Nationalism
On Women's Education
Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920
Women's Suffrage in China
Constructing the Woman Citizen and Struggling for the Vote in California, 1896-1911
"A "Test of Chiffon Politics
Feminism and Socialism in China
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |