Female Hands: Embroidery as a Knowledge Field in Women's Everyday Life in Late Imperial and Early Republican China

Fong, Grace S.

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“…Shen Shou, a celebrated embroiderer who held a government post in the late Qing, exhibited her embroidered portraits abroad in the last years of the Qing and the early Republic. Her 1919 manual on embroidery, written with the male reformer and industrialist Zhang Jian, promoted fine needlework, no longer as a sign of womanly virtue, but rather as a means by which women could support themselves while helping to decrease China's dependence on foreign goods (Fong 2004). We still have remarkably few studies about the daily working lives of middle-class housewives in urban Republican China.…”

Section: Urban Women's Work In Republican Chinamentioning

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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Hershatter¹

2007

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Description:This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of modern China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past. Author:Gail Hershatter is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among her books is Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Review:"An important and much-needed introduction to a rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb." -Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953 WOMEN IN CHINA'S LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY GAIL HERSHATTER Women in China's Long Twentieth CenturyWomen in China's Long Twentieth Century Gail Hershatter Global, Area, and International Archive University of California Press Berkeley los Angeles LondonThe Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA) is an initiative of International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the University of California Press, the California Digital Library, and international research programs across the UC system. GAIA volumes, which are published in both print and open-access digital editions, represent the best traditions of regional studies, reconfigured through fresh global, transnational, and thematic perspectives.University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. Hershatter, Gail. Women in China's long twentieth century / Gail Hershatter. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-520-09856-5 (pbk.: alk. paper), isbn-10: 0-520-09856-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) University of California Press1. Women -China -Social conditions -20th century. 2. Women -Employment -China. 3. Sex role -China. 4. Women and communism -China. 5. Feminism -China. I. University of California, Berkeley. Global, Area, and International Archive. II. Title. HQ1767. H47 2007 305.40951'0904-dc22 2006029808 Manufactured in the United States of America 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39. 48-1992 (r1997) The study of women in twentieth-century China has expanded so quickly since the mid-1980s that a state-of-the-field survey becomes outdate...

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Section: Urban Women's Work In Republican Chinamentioning

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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Hershatter¹

2007

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“…41 On the social and economic relevance of "women's work," see Bray (1997), pp. 173-272;Fong (2004), pp. 5-13.…”

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The Research Agenda of Zhu Qiqian: A Reframing of Traditional Chinese Craftsmanship

Hofmann¹

2020

EAST

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As a researcher, Zhu Qiqian 朱啟鈐 (1872-1964) is commonly known as the founding father of Chinese architectural history. Consequently, his work has been analyzed predominantly by architectural historians and in the context of architectural history. However, this lopsided perception distorts and obscures Zhu’s comprehensive research objectives and his contribution to a variety of fields, in particular his attempt to reframe and thoroughly investigate the history of Chinese traditional crafts. In order to reveal the intended scope and the unique approach of Zhu’s studies, this article analyzes the motivations behind Zhu Qiqian’s engagement with traditional craftsmanship, the far-reaching program of the research group he established, and one of his main research projects, the Zhejianglu 哲匠錄 (Collected Biographies of Master Craftsmen).

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“…On artisans and their patrons, see Dorothy Ko's unpublished work on female inkstone carvers and embroiderers. than interpret and appreciate) things were perhaps most common in the case of feminine crafts: silk embroidery, for example, was extensively discussed in illustrated manuals (Fong 2004).…”

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Craft Knowledge at the Interface of Written and Oral Cultures

Eyferth¹

2010

East Asian Science

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How did artisans in late imperial and Republican China reproduce technical knowledge, what role did writing play in knowledge reproduction, and to which extent did literate and oral knowledge cultures meet? This article looks at these questions from two angles: it reconstructs tacit, oral, and literate modes of knowledge transmission among artisans (in particular papermakers) in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and it looks at the production, circulation, and potential impact of texts dealing with artisanal techniques.Much recent work on early modern Europe has focused on the interface between the literate world of elite scholars and the tacit (though not necessarily illiterate) world of people who worked with their hands. As Pamela Smith has shown, artisans in early modern Flanders, Germany, and Holland were informed by an "artisanal epistemology" which prized works over words and knowledge gained from the manipulation of matter over textual learning and speculative thought (Smith 2004). Lissa Roberts and her collaborators demonstrate that much of what we now consider science owes its existence to the "mindful hand:" the close (albeit unequal) cooperation between non-elite technicians and elite philosophers (Roberts et al. 2007). Similar work remains to be done for China, where the study of technology is still too often the study of texts, with little consideration for how such texts reflected or informed actual practice. In the period, I am interested in here-Qing and Republican period (1911Republican period ( -1949 China-artisanal practice was typically tacit. Most goods produced in China originated in small workshops or farm households that relied on experiential and embodied knowledge. Skills were transmitted directly East

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Female Hands: Embroidery as a Knowledge Field in Women's Everyday Life in Late Imperial and Early Republican China

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

Women in China's Long Twentieth Century

The Research Agenda of Zhu Qiqian: A Reframing of Traditional Chinese Craftsmanship

Craft Knowledge at the Interface of Written and Oral Cultures

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