Zhou authors book on women's rights in China
21 August 2006 Zhou authors book on womens rights in China
Jinghao Zhou, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, recently authored Remaking Chinas Public Philosophy and Chinese Womens Liberation: The Volatile Mixing of Confucianism, Marxism, and Feminism, published by the Edwin Mellen Press at the beginning of August.
In his book, Zhou challenges the conventional Western and Eastern European opinions and refutes the official Chinese gender ideology, arguing that Confucianism is not the source of womens oppression, Western feminism is not a panacea to womens liberation, and Marxism cannot be the guiding principle of the Chinese womens movement.
To achieve the ultimate goal of womens liberation, it is urgent for Chinese women to increase self-consciousness of womens liberation and promote an independent womens movement to fight for rights in every aspect of Chinese society, focusing on five keys of womens liberation.
This book will be adopted for Zhous class Asian Studies class Women in Contemporary Chinese Culture in the coming semester.
Zhou joined the faculty in 2001 and is the author of the book Remaking Chinas Public Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century (Praeger 2003).