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Precious Fire
Karen Garner
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Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution
出版University of Massachusetts Press, 2003
主題Biography & Autobiography / PoliticalBiography & Autobiography / Social ActivistsHistory / Asia / ChinaPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismReligion / Institutions & OrganizationsSocial Science / Feminism & Feminist TheorySocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN15584940499781558494046
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pwwqAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋When Maud Russell (1893-1989) first sailed for China in 1917, she traveled as one of a number of foreign secretaries dispatched by the YWCA to do Woman's Work for Woman. A product of the Progressive Era, she sought to bring the benefits of Christianity and Western civilization to a new generation of Chinese women struggling to find their own path to modernity in the wake of the 1911 Republican Revolution. Instead, over the next twenty-six years, Russell was herself transformed - from Christian liberal reformer to committed Marxist revolutionary. According to Karen Gamer, Russell's personal political trajectory paralleled that of the YWCA in China, which evolved during the 1920s and 1930s from a Westernled, middle-class-oriented institution into a Chinese-led organization that addressed the needs of revolutionary working women. Crossing class, race, and cultural boundaries to learn from their Chinese associates, Russell and a few other western YWCA secretaries developed a shared vision of feminist social change that included support for the Chinese Communist Party and its leadership. Returning to the United States during World War II, Russell joined American liberals and leftist