Date of Submission
Spring 2024
Academic Program
Literature; Politics
Project Advisor 1
Pınar Kemerli
Project Advisor 2
Shuangting Xiong
Abstract/Artist's Statement
Through this project, I aim to look at elite Chinese women’s work in response to Western influences. During the 1800s to 1900s, Western ideology and social customs began to spread into China. With the return of Western-educated Chinese scholars, the tension between local communities’ values and the West, a foreign value diverse from the local community, increases. By examining Chang Yu-i’s memoir, Bound Feet and Western Dress, and the work of He Yin Zhen, an anarchist feminist at the time, I will look into how the elite group in China responded to the Western influence around them. Ultimately, the paper further looks into the question: how does the elite’s efforts in examining the interaction show us about the social phenomenon other communities experience under Western influence?
Open Access Agreement
Open Access
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Recommended Citation
Lai, Pin-Shan, "Thinking of Western Influence: Elite Chinese Women’s Response from 1880s to 1920s" (2024). Senior Projects Spring 2024. 162.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2024/162
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