China's Developmental Miracle by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4586818
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Women, the State, and Women’s Political Participation

Over the last decades, sinologists have upheld a one-dimensional portrayal of the CCP state and its relations with Chinese women. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the proletarian revolution led by the CCP state was said to have liberated the Chinese woman.4 A decade later, cynicism and criticism had replaced this positive appraisal. Now, the notion of socialist patriarchy is employed to portray the CCP state as having betrayed its commitment to women’s emancipation.5 In general, these pioneering studies assumed that the CCP state enjoys an absolute, invasive, and effective power to either liberate or to repress Chinese women, and that Chinese women have played limited roles in the process. Although recent studies have adopted a more sophisticated model, a one-dimensional approach continues to be invoked.6 This is especially evident in debates surrounding the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) held in Beijing in 1995, when Western feminist/activist groups categorized the CCP state as an authoritarian regime that persistently violated women’s rights.7 This undifferentiated conceptualization of the CCP in relation to women’s emancipation entirely ignored the increasing dynamism of women’s activism in post-Mao China.

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