Talent, Virtue, and the Nation: Chinese Nationalisms and Female Subjectivities in the Early Twentieth Century

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Joan Judge is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (1996). Her major research interest lies in the relationship between reading culture and political and social change in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century China. Her current book project focuses on the gendered dimensions of this relationship, examining the intersections among female literacy, nationalism, and modernity. Judge has a number of related articles published or forthcoming on conceptions and practices of female literacy, women and citizenship, and the uses of history in the promotion of a new normative femininity.