Martyred Patriarchs, Institutionalized Virtues, and the Gendered Republic of Twentieth-Century China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008395 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linh D Vu (0000-0001-7214-2401, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 290-319 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0097700419887466 |
| OpenAlex | W2989510085 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This article draws attention to the cultural and social specificities of women’s agency in Republican China and suggests a way to rethink the polarizing impacts of revolution- and war-related deaths on women’s lives. Analyzing a number of petitions submitted by widows of martyrs, this article explores the transformation in family-state and gender relations during the Republican era. I argue that the Nationalist martyr compensation law perpetuated the imperial-era standards for the feminine virtues of chastity and sacrifice, circumscribing women’s social and political roles in twentieth-century China. Under the new equality-promoting legal regime and in the absence of familial patriarchs, women had new opportunities to venture outside their domestic quarters and to engage with the state. Yet, the Republican state often made exceptions to the law based on petitioners’ display of feminine virtues. By entering into this negotiation of virtue with the state, Chinese women defined themselves primarily through their performance of moral qualities
Agency (philosophy · China · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Virtue · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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Disgraceful Matters
The Gender of Memory
Technology and Gender
Competitive Comrades
Talent, Virtue, and the Nation
Public Passions
Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953
Women and the Family in Chinese History
Intolerable Cruelty
Embattled Glory
Peking University
Women and Property in China, 960-1949
Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960–1368)
An Unfinished Republic
Gender, Politics, and Democracy
Precious Records
Martyrs and Militarism in Early Republican China
Textiles and Female Virtue in Early Imperial Chinese Historical Writing
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |