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In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan,ZhengPingru and LiuHulan, this book examines the ways in which these extraordinary women have been commemorated through a range of cultural mediums including film, theatre, museums and textbooks. Whether perceived as heroes or anti-heroes, Edwards shows that both the popular and official presentation of these women and their accomplishments has evolved in line with China's shifting political values and circumstances over the past one hundred years. Written in a lively and accessible style with illustrations throughout, this book sheds new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation and the ways that women have been exploited to glamorise war both historically in the past and in China today

This is a book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction with international norms of celebrity production. The book comprises case studies from popular culture, official culture, and business celebrities

1. Asian feminisms : women's movements from the Asian perspective / Mina Roces -- 2. Feminism and the women's movement in the world's largest Islamic nation / Susan Blackburn -- 3. Rethinking 'the Filipino woman' : a century of women's activism in the Philippines, 1905-2006 / Mina Roces -- 4. Chinese feminism in a transnational frame : between internationalism and xenophobia / Louise Edwards -- 5. Transnational networks and localized campaigns : the women's movement in Singapore / Lenore Lyons -- 6. Crossing boundaries : transnational feminisms in twentieth-century Japan / Barbara Molony -- 7. Feminism, Buddhism and transnational women's movements in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- 8. Following the trail of the fairy-bird : the search for a uniquely Vietnamese women's movement / Alessandra Chiricosta -- 9. The Hong Kong women's movement : towards a politics of difference and diversity / Adelyn Lim -- 10. Military rule, religious fundamentalism, women's empowerment and feminism in Pakistan / Andrea Fleschenberg -- 11. Mapping a hundred years of activism : women's movements in Korea / Seung-Kyung Kim and Kyounghee Kim -- 12. 'Riding a buffalo to cross a muddy field' : heuristic approaches to feminism in Cambodia / Trudy Jacobsen -- 13. Rights talk and the feminist movement in India / Sumi Madhok

This is a book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction with international norms of celebrity production. The book comprises case studies from popular culture, official culture, and business celebrities.

Introduction : orienting the global women's suffrage movement / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces -- Is the suffragist an American colonial construct? : defining 'the Filipino woman' in colonial Philippines / Mina Roces -- Chinese women's campaigns for suffrage : nationalism, Confucianism and political agency / Louise Edwards -- Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia / Susan Blackburn -- Women's suffrage in Viêt Nam / Micheline R. Lessard -- Citizenship and suffrage in interwar Japan / Barbara Molony -- Expanding their realm : women and public agency in colonial Korea / Ken Wells -- The politics of women's suffrage in Thailand / Tamara Loos -- Tradition, law and the female suffrage movement in India / Gail Pearson -- Settler anxieties, indigenous peoples and women's suffrage in the colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawai'i, 1888 to 1902 / Patricia Grimshaw

Includes chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case studies presented. It explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage.