Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers

Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations xv
List of Figures xvii
Notes on Contributors xix

Part I Chinese Women Organizing In/Outside

Introduction
Maria Jaschok, Cecilia Milwertz and Ping-Chun Hsiung 3

Part II Contextualizing andTranscending East-West Boundaries

1. New Spaces, New Voices: Women Organizing in Twentieth-century China, Elisabeth Croll 25
2. Chinese Queer (Tongzhi) Women Organizing in the 1990s, He Xiaopei 41
3. East Meets West Feminist Translation Group: A Conversation between Two Participants, Ge Youli and Susan Jolly 61

Part III Ethnic, Diaspora and Religious Perspectives

4. Feminist Collaboration between Diaspora and China, Xiaolan Bao with Wu Xu 79
5. In Search of Sacred Women's Organizations, Shui Jingjun 101
   Other Voices — Other Conversations
   Faith and Social Change 119

Part IV NGO Discourse and Deconstructing the Women's Federation

6. The All China Women's Federation: Challenges and Trends, Jin Yihong 123
7. The All China Women's Federation and Women's NGOs, Liu Bohong 141
8. Searching for `Authentic' NGOs: The NGO Discourse and Women's Organizations in China, Naihua Zhang 159
   Other Voices – Other Conversations
   Defining the Women's Federation 180
   Challenges to the Centre and its Prerogatives 182
   Popular Organizing – Strengths and Constraints 184
   Targets and Subjects – the `Quality' of Women 186

Part V Pockets of Space

9. Strategies and Space: A Case Study, Gao Xiaoxian 193
10. The Women's Media Watch Network, Cai Yiping, Feng Yuan and Guo Yanqiu 209
    Other Voices – Other Conversations
    Strategies and in-between Spaces 227
    The Role of the Private Sector 230
    International Collaboration against Violence
    Against Women 231

Part VI Positioning Women's Studies

11. `Manoeuvring Fate' and `Following the Call': Development and Prospects of Women's Studies, Du Fangqin 237
    Other Voices – Other Conversations
    Influencing Policy-making 250
    Outside Support and International Funding 252

Part VII Post-workshop Reflections 255

Part VIII Lexicon of Chinese Women Organizing 27

Appendix I Workshop Abstracts 293
Appendix II List of Workshop Participants 305
Bibliography 309
Index 323