Ai Xiaoming

A Chinese Woman Intellectual

AvJinyan Zeng

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Ai Xiaoming: A Chinese Woman Intellectual examines the construction and transformation of intellectual identity in modern China through the life and work of Ai Xiaoming, foregrounding how women intellectuals negotiate public engagement under pervasive political, institutional, technological, and gendered constraints.Tracing shifts and overlaps among public intellectuals, academics, citizen intelligentsia, activist-intellectuals, and forbidden intellectuals, it shows how intellectual identity evolves in response to changing political ideologies and degrees of state control. Particular attention is paid to digital technologies as sites of both empowerment and surveillance, and to women’s strategic use of bodies, emotions, and domestic spaces for social action. Ai Xiaoming’s filmic, historical, and activist practices illuminate truth-seeking identities grounded in legal rhetoric, historical writing, and ethical self-making amid repression.This book is ideal for scholars and students of China studies, gender and feminist studies, intellectual history, media and cultural studies, and social activism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-21
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:190
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041215066

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jinyan Zeng (曾金燕) is an affiliated researcher and a former Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Department of History, Lund University, Sweden. She was born and raised as an ethnic Hakka in China, and is also a creative writer and documentary filmmaker.

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This affectionate and provocative biography of Ai Xiaoming, the pathbreaking feminist scholar and documentary filmmaker, is embedded in a broad historical landscape of truth-seeking intellectuals in modern China. Importantly, Zeng’s contribution to intellectual history is deeply informed by her practice and reflexivity as a fellow feminist. Zhen Zhang, author of Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World CinemaThis timely book focuses on Ai Xiaoming, a professor and feminist activist who has had a great impact on a generation of Chinese feminists, including the author Zeng Jinyan herself. The book explores the life and work of Professor Ai that bridge scholarship, activism and film-making. The book provides new perspectives on gender issues as well China’s complex history and suppressed memories and will be of interest to readers not only in China studies but those who focuses on the role of scholars who maintain a critical voice globally. Marina Svensson, author of Debating Human Rights in China: A Conceptual and Political HistoryZeng Jinyan’s study of feminist scholar Ai Xiaoming’s practice of activism, scholarship and documentary investigation incorporates broader reflections on women intellectuals in 20th century China and globally. The unique positionality of the author as both insider and outsider provides her with poignant insights into the gendered logic of knowledge production.Sebastian Veg, author of Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. Stigma and Intellectual Identity: A Short Biography of Ai Xiaoming 2. Authenticity and Intellectual Integrity: Ai Xiaoming’s History of the Intellectual 3. Documentary and Rights Defense: Ai Xiaoming’s Visualization of Truth-Telling 4. Body and Digital Feminism: Ai Xiaoming’s Nude Breasts Photography 5. Space and Public Life: Ai Xiaoming’s Everyday Practice 6. Conclusion: A Feminist Study of the Chinese Intellectual Filmography Reference Index