歪脑 on Chizuko Ueno, #China's "backward" feminists, and whether wanting "to have it all" is a viable positio within feminism 评上野千鹤子对话全嘻嘻：如果女权的答案是“结不结婚都一样”，那我们在说什么废话呢？ wainao.me/wainao-reads/U…
SCMP: Quan Xixi posted an interview that she & two classmates from 北大conducted w/#Japan's most famous feminist on #Bilibili that began w/ the question "Are you not married because you have been hurt by men? Or is it bec. of the influence of your family?” sc.mp/didb?utm_sourc…
After a torrent of criticism, the #Bilibili video was removed but not before it garnered more than 10 million views, generated 35k+ comments, & even made it to the top of #Weibo’s hot search list, a demonstration of the depth of popular curiosity about feminism in #China today
Lü Pin, founder of Feminist Voices, #China’s most prominent new media channel on women’s issues (shut down in 2018): "Amid China’s population crisis, women not fulfilling their traditional marital responsibilities has become a tiny form of resistance to the state" under XJP.
Some of you may recall that after arresting large numbers of female participants in the recent "#A4Protests" against zero-#COVID measures, #China’s police were asking if those interviewed had read Chizuko Ueno's work or were members of women's book clubs nytimes.com/2023/01/26/wor…
In her "In the Feminine Guise: A Trap of Reverse Orientalism," Ueno argues that, following Saïd's Orientalism, "Oriental women have been doubly feminized...for their femininity has already been appropriated by men themselves" in #Japan jstor.org/stable/4277211…
"Building feminism is not an easy task in such a cultural context, & I am sure that the experience of Japanese feminism can shed a useful light on women's experience in other orientalized nations."
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