About Chinese Women

In About Chinese Women Julia Kristeva combines a study of Chinese history, literature, religion and politics with her own penetrating insights. Kristeva analyzes aspects of a country in which the role of women has evolved and been transformed with startling consequences. Surveying first the place of women in the social order of the capitalist West, she moves on to examine the family in ancient China, and provides a fascinating account of the Chinese feminist movement of the early 20th century. She explores the idea that, because of its Confucian antecedents, the Chinese revolution had to take on an anti-patriarchal character – and was therefore more fundamentally ‘a women’s revolution’ than others elsewhere, before or since