Smirnova, N. V. NANXIU QIAN ON THE ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN REFORMERS IN CHINA AT THE END OF THE XIX CENTURY. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2022;44(2):24–30. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2022.728


Historiography, source studies, methods of historical research

NANXIU QIAN ON THE ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN REFORMERS IN CHINA AT THE END OF THE XIX CENTURY

Smirnova
N. V. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Keywords:
Nanxiu Qian
China History
The Shanghai Campaign of 1897–1898
women’s education
women reformers
Xue Shaohui		 Summary: The article analyzes the women’s participation in the Chinese Reform Movement of the 1890`s in Nanxiu Qian’s research, Professor of Chinese Literature at Rice University. The activity of women reformers during the Shanghai campaign for women’s education of 1897–1898 was studied; the role of the talented writer and translator Xue Shaohui in the 1898 Reform Period in China was considered. The professor’s works show that during the Shanghai campaign the first women’s association in China, the first Chinese school for young elite women and the first Chinese women’s journal “Chinese Girl’s Progress” were created by the joint efforts of men and women reformers, the issue of women’s rights in China was raised. Nanxiu Qian concludes that attention to Xue Shaohui’s work broadens and reperiodizes how we understand nonstate reform activity in the last years of the Qing. It was began in the 1860s, extended beyond the capital, encompassed many facets of social and cultural life, was shaped by the writings of women as well as men, and continued in other forms after the best-known reformers were executed or forced into exile.



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