The Birth of Chinese Feminism by He Zhen

Though opposing Chinese tradition, at the same time the language ofĬonfucianism provided the anarchists with the setting in which the ideas ofĪnarchism were to be discussed (Zarrow 1990: 5-6). Opposed to the Darwinian idea of a struggle for existence (Pusey 1983:ģ89-411). In the latter part of the 19 th century, especially Peter KropotkinĪnd his theory that the leading principle in nature was that of mutual aid, as Human individual and its role in society.Ĭhinese anarchists in Tokyo drew heavily on leading European anarchist thinkers Thus the preoccupation with female rights brought attention to the The TianyiĪll, which had to start with establishing freedom and equality between the Journal before the republican revolution in 1911. In deed, the journal is considered the most outspoken feminist Much due to He Zhen, who hadĮstablished the Nüzi fuquan hui 女子復權會 (Society for the Restoration ofĪ feminist revolution, which was to be the starting point for the larger social Traditional social institutions, like the family.

Thorough-going social revolution with the abolition of the state and

Leading figures among the Tokyo anarchists were the classical scholar Liu Time, published in Tokyo from 1907 to 1908. Journal Tianyi 天義 (Natural Justice), the leading anarchist journal of its Interpretations of Western ideas concerning the individual, as expressed in the This paper I shall examine some of the first Chinese anarchists’ Anarchism: Feminism and Utopianism in the Tianyi (Natural

The Birth of Chinese Feminism by He Zhen