Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
An Unfinished RepublicLeading by Word and Deed in Modern China$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China

David Strand

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780520267367

Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520267367.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.california.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright University of California Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in CALSO for personal use.date: 04 July 2022

A Woman’s Republic

A Woman’s Republic

Chapter:
(p.97) Chapter 3 A Woman’s Republic
Source:
An Unfinished Republic
Author(s):

David Strand

Publisher:
University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520267367.003.0004

The 1911 Revolution and the institution of the Republic stimulated the entry of thousands of women into national and local politics. In the urgent aftermath of the 1911 Revolution, suffragist and women's organizations were famous and frequent, rivaled only by Manchus and Bannerman in their zest for getting organized and expressing their political views. As a contemporary account of women's participation in politics explained, “Women are carried away by revolutionary work and increase their understanding of what the status and responsibilities of a citizen are.” Women who joined suffrage groups were described as acting “as if awakened from their illusions.” Embracing the fluid moment, they took to republican revolution “like fish to water.” The slaps delivered to Song Jiaoren carried the force of these women's idealism and frustration. Chinese women took the idea of natural rights from the West.

Keywords:   aftermath, local politics, idealism, frustration, Song Jiaren

California Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.