Joan Judge, professor of History at York University, will launch her book Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press at an event March 3 hosted by the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR).
The book explores an often overlooked brand of commercial culture that emerged around China’s 1911 Revolution. Judge seeks to understand the early years of China’s first republic through the mainland Chinese journals Funu shibao (the women’s eastern times). She argues that the commercial press played a key role in shaping gender trends in China’s revolutionary 20th century.
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