| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Wang Zheng. Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999. Pp. xv, 402. Cloth $50.00, paper $18.95.

It is not often the case that the reading of a scholarly book is so gripping that it keeps one up all night. But Wang Zheng's elegantly written study of women in China's so-called enlightenment (the May Fourth period, loosely defined as 1915–1925) makes for such fascinating reading! The book is unique in its attempt to recontextualize and thus to question the familiar narrative, perpetuated by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) historiography and Western scholarship alike, that the May Fourth period marked the decisive beginning of a women's movement in China, a movement that would eventually be brought to victory under the rule of the CCP after 1949. . . .

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